40 SmartPhones located in an air conditioned

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SmartLab

• A Programming Cloud of Smartphones

• Andreas Konstantinidis, Costantinos Costa,
  Georgios Larkou and Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti

Department of Computer Science University of
Cyprus

• 40 SmartPhones located in an air conditioned
• laboratory that features WiFi coverage
• SmartPhones are remotely mounted to a
• VMWare VCenter located in the cluster
• room through a local proxy.
• All commands are instructed
• over Androids ADB Server
• Connectivity state maintained
• in a MySQL DB.

• Overview
• SmartLab is an exciting experimental testbed of
  approximately 40 real Android Smartphones, plus
  emulated devices, deployed at the Department of
  Computer Science building at the University of
  Cyprus
• Registered users can upload and install Android
  executables (APKs) on a number of Android
  smartphones, capture their output, reboot the
  devices, create concurrent interactive jobs using
  MonkeyRunner scripts, interact with the remote
  devices and many other exciting features.
• SmartLab aims to facilitate research in
  smartphone network programming environments,
  communication protocols, system design, and
  applications.

Architecture

• The SmartLab Workflow

• A) Device Allocation
• Browse through an intuitive web-based catalog in
  order to allocate devices for a certain amount of
  time.
• Release allocated devices through the same
  catalog after completing the experiments.

• C) Interact With Devices
• Remote Control Terminals (RCT)
• Remote Shells (RS)

• B) File Transfers
• Transfer files (e.g. APKs, required files for
  experiments) from your PC to SmartLabs servers.
• Upload files to multiple allocated devices
  simultaneously through an intuitive web-based
  drag-n-drop interface .

• Future Work
• Open SmartLab to the public. Register now to our
  mailing list!
• Add new features
• ? Web2.0 GUI Implement a Web2.0
  front-end for SmartLab based on Yii
  Framework.
• ? Eclipse Plugin Allow the users to
  allocate devices and run experiments through
  SmartLabs Eclipse plugin.
• ? Crowdsourced Platform Remotely connect
  and interact with your own devices through
  SmartLabs Cloud.
• Experiment with SmartLab and summarize our
  experiences in a scientific publication

Applications

• SmartTrace Crowdsourced framework for executing
  distributed similarity search queries on
  trajectories that are stored in-situ on
  smartphones.
• http//smarttrace.cs.ucy.ac.cy
• SmartP2P A novel framework for searching objects
  (e.g., images, videos, etc.) captured by the
  users in a mobile social community with emphasis
  on preserving users privacy.
• http//smartp2p.cs.ucy.ac.cy

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the
last authors Startup Grant, Funded by the
University of Cyprus