CAREER: Mobile Application Management

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。虽然移动应用程序为用户提供了随时随地连接互联网的机会，但部署、监控和维护分布式移动应用程序给软件开发人员带来了新的挑战。看似微不足道的任务——例如配置设备、启动执行和跟踪错误——由于移动环境的独特特征而变得复杂。从历史上看，应用程序管理框架帮助开发人员处理管理应用程序的复杂性；然而，没有现有的框架能够解决移动网络带来的挑战。为此，本提案有以下目标：1)研究移动应用程序的延迟容忍控制机制，使分布式应用程序管理能够在网络中断的情况下实现；2)开发和评估部分可预测的资源调度算法，利用可预测的人类交互模式来公平地仲裁共享测试平台中移动设备的访问；3)开发移动应用管理软件工具包，简化应用部署和可视化。该框架将实现一组统一的抽象，使开发人员避免在移动计算设备上管理应用程序的复杂性。这项工作的结果将使一系列的学生、研究人员和开发人员受益，通过推进最先进的移动应用程序管理，并使更容易地访问移动测试平台上的实验。通过将框架与共享的移动测试平台集成，小型学院的本科生很少接触系统开发，包括妇女和代表性不足的群体，将体验大型研究机构的技术丰富性，并获得开发真正的分布式系统的实际经验。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).While mobile applications offer users an opportunity for on-the-go Internet connectivity, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining distributed mobile applications introduces new challenges for software developers. Seemingly trivial tasks--such as configuring devices, starting executions, and tracking errors--are complicated by the unique characteristics of mobile environments. Historically, application management frameworks have helped developers cope with the complexities of managing applications; however, no existing frameworks address the challenges presented by mobile networks. To this end, this proposal has the following goals: 1) investigate mechanisms for the delay tolerant control of mobile applications that enable distributed application management despite network disruptions; 2) develop and evaluate algorithms for partially predictable resource scheduling that leverage the predictable patterns of human interaction to fairly arbitrate access to mobile devices in shared testbeds; 3) develop a software toolkit for mobile application management that simplifies application deployment and visualization. The framework will implement a set of unified abstractions that shield developers from the complexities of managing applications on mobile computing devices. The results of the work will benefit a range of students, researchers, and developers by advancing the state-of-the-art for mobile application management and enabling easier access to experimentation on mobile testbeds. By integrating the framework with shared mobile testbeds, undergraduates at small colleges with little prior exposure to systems development, including women and underrepresented groups, will experience the technological richness of large research institutions and gain hands-on experience with developing real distributed systems.