2) Cyber Foraging
Two contradictory requirements for mobile devices:
Must be lightweight = small, light, with small and light battery
Compromises computing capabilities
Must have powerful comp/comm capabilities
Ever-growing expectations of mobile users
Well beyond capabilities of a lightweight mobile computer
How to reconcile contradictory requirements?
Difficult to reconcile
Idea: use cyber foraging
Forage: the act of searching for provisions of any kind.
Cyber foraging:
Dynamically augment the computing resources of a wireless mobile computer by exploiting wired hardware infrastructure [the surrounding smart space]