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Although smartphones are increasingly becoming more and more powerful, enabling pervasiveness is severely hindered by the resource limitations of mobile devices. The combination of social interactions and mobile devices in the form of ‘crowd computing’ has the potential to surpass these limitations. In this paper, we introduce Honeybee; a crowd computing framework for mobile devices. Honeybee enables mobile devices to share work, utilize local resources and human collaboration in the mobile context. It employs ‘work stealing’ to effectively load balance tasks across nodes that are a priori unknown. We describe the design of Honeybee, and report initial experimental data from applications implemented using Honeybee.
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Fernando, N., Loke, S.W., Rahayu, W. (2013). Honeybee: A Programming Framework for Mobile Crowd Computing. In: Zheng, K., Li, M., Jiang, H. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. MobiQuitous 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 120. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_19
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