A platform-independent smartphone application development framework

Abstract

Smartphones are generally less powerful than other mobile computing devices. Therefore, it is necessary to offload the computation-intensive part by careful partitioning of application functions across the cloud computing. In this paper, we propose a platform-independent framework for smartphone application development. The core technology of our framework is based on web service and SOAP protocol. Because we are targeting on OS independent platform, web service is the best fit for the framework that is not depending on a certain smart-phone OS platform. To this end, we propose the framework architecture and evaluate the system using the application of PI value computation. The result shows that our mobile cloud computing platform performs better as increasing number of cloud nodes. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.