Demo: Transient clouds

In this paper, we present our demo of Transient Clouds - a platform that allows for mobile devices within range of each other to form an ad-hoc network and collaboratively execute tasks. Transient Clouds are utilized in temporal scenarios in which the cloud is created on-the-fly by the devices present in an environment and would disappear as the devices leave the network. In Transient Clouds, each device offers a different set of capabilities based on its software and hardware. When a particular device has a task to execute, it can send it into the Transient Cloud that would assign the subtasks to the devices, based on their capabilities, and collect the results back. We use a modified version of the Hungarian method to decide the assignments to achieve certain properties such as load balancing and collocating subtasks. This demo showcases an implementation of a Transient Cloud, albeit limited by Android's Wi-Fi Direct framework, in which a number of devices provide their capabilities as a cloud service. The demo is based on an Android app that connects the devices and allows for the remote execution of subtasks on devices based on the assignment algorithm.