Towards an offloading approach that augments multi-persona performance and viability

Abstract

Mobile virtualization is a key technology that is witnessing widespread adoption to realize multi-persona functionality capable of accommodating work, personal, and mobility needs on a single mobile terminal. Yet, unlike virtualization on servers and desktop machines, mobile virtualization is more challenging due to the limited resources on mobiles platforms in terms of CPU, memory and battery. The evolution of mobile virtualization ranged from heavy to more lightweight techniques capable of running virtual environments on mobile devices with lower overhead. Even though the latest proposed lightweight approaches were able to realize multi-persona, yet none of them is capable of efficiently managing personas performance or ensuring their viability. In parallel, to address the resource limitations of mobile platforms, many researchers have proposed offloading techniques to migrate computation intensive components out of the mobile device to be executed on resourceful mobile cloud computing infrastructure. Motivated by their promising results, we propose in this paper the integration of offloading in the virtual environments on the mobile device toward augmenting personas performance and ensuring their viability. Our experiments show very promising results in this regard.