AIOLOS

AIOLOS is an OSGi-based platform bridging the gap between mobile devices and the Cloud.

Mobilize the Cloud

AIOLOS allows you to transparently deploy software components on your mobile device or in the Cloud. Components and services are automatically wired together and communicate through high performant remote procedure call protocols.

Fast redeployment

Software components can be deployed on any of your connected devices at runtime. Depending on the required CPU load and the available network connectivity, components can be easily migrated or scaled to meet your performance requirements.

Open source software

The AIOLOS framework is available as open source software under AGPLv3 license. We also build on other open source technologies such as Apache jClouds and Eclipse Concierge. Many of the core AIOLOS components such as the Repository and RemoteServiceAdmin also follow the OSGi specifications as provided by the OSGi Alliance.

About

AIOLOS is a research project running at Ghent University - iMinds. Initially, AIOLOS was developed as a framework for mobile code offloading between a mobile device and a single server, but later evolved to a generic framework for mobile cloud computing.

For more info on AIOLOS and our research:

Steven Bohez, Elias De Coninck, Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Bart Dhoedt, "Enabling Component-based Mobile Cloud Computing with the AIOLOS Middleware", In proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'14), Bordeaux, France, 2014.

Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, "AIOLOS: Middleware for improving mobile application performance through cyber foraging", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 85, Issue 11, pp.2629-2639, November 2012.

Tim Verbelen, Pieter Simoens, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, "Leveraging Cloudlets for Immersive Collaborative Applications", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 30-38, Oct-Dec, 2013.

If you use AIOLOS in your research, please cite one of those papers.

Team

AIOLOS is currently developed and maintained by the following team members:

Tim Verbelen created the first prototypes of the AIOLOS framework during his Ph.D. at Ghent University - iMinds. He used AIOLOS to optimize runtime deployment of software components for resource-intensive applications such as augmented reality. Tim is also committer of the Eclipse Foundation on the Concierge project, a lightweight OSGi runtime targeted to mobile and embedded devices, and he is an invited researcher of the OSGi Alliance.

Elias De Coninck is working on a Ph.D. at Ghent University - iMinds on algorithms for optimally scaling application components in hybrid cloud systems. He is mainly responsible for running AIOLOS in the cloud and the jclouds integration.

Steven Bohez is working on a Ph.D. at Ghent University - iMinds and is focussing on advanced mobile cloud applications that are distributed between the mobile device and the cloud. He is currenlty researching optimal deployment and scaling algorithms and using AIOLOS to evaluate and demo his research.