Timothy O'Sullivan
ABSTRACT
Next-generation mobile devices will be multifunctional and be expected to execute a broad range of compute-intensive applications. They are constraint by their device and mobility characteristics in achieving these expectations. Reconfigurable logic has vast potential to facilitate mobile devices in meeting these future system performance requirements. This paper proposes incorporating reconfigurable computing and agent technology into mobile device environments. Agent technology is an ideal middleware for mobile device management enabling effective utilization of reconfigurable resources. Reconfigurable logic is integrated into the environment of a mobile device i.e. both into the physical device and into surrounding adaptive servers. An outline of the overall strategy is described. A detailed examination of enabling a client mobile device to dynamically offload reconfigurable hardware-software based computations to neighboring adaptive servers is presented. In addition, the paper details an initial demonstrator system within a medical environment.
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