High-Speed Migration by Anticipative Mobility

In the advent of ambient intelligence, introducing ubiquitous mobile systems and services in general and mobile code in particular, network latency becomes a critical factor, especially in wireless, low-bandwidth environments. This paper investigates anticipative mobility, a high performance computing technique that exploits parallelism between loading and execution of applications to reduce network latency. The technique sends the mobile application code anticipative to the remote host, long before the actual migration is requested. Then, at the actual migration, we won’t transfer the complete application anymore but only the delta of the current computational state with the already migrated computational state. Our experiments show that some applications can migrate in 2% of their original migration time. This allows applications to migrate very fast from host to host without a significant loss of execution time during the migration phase