VIRTUALIZATION IN MOBILE DEVICES Case Study: The Android Platform Presented by: David Ramirez COMP 5003 Graduate Seminar and Project Research Instructor: Dr. A. Lodgher PVAMU – Computer Science Department February 2009

Virtualization Abstraction of hardware resources by means of software. Virtualization Classic Model : Mainframe / Server oriented

Abstraction of hardware resources by means of software.

MOBILE DEVICES CAN BENEFIT FROM VIRTUALIZATION TOO Increasing computing power, storage Now active Internet nodes Lower hardware costs … but Proliferation of platforms causes: Software development drag Cannot reuse software Usability Issues (Real Time required) Reliability issues Debugging issues Security issues Marketability issues

Increasing computing power, storage

Now active Internet nodes

Lower hardware costs

… but

Proliferation of platforms causes:

Software development drag

Cannot reuse software

Usability Issues (Real Time required)

Reliability issues

Debugging issues

Security issues

Marketability issues

Current Paradigm Future paradigm

G1 – Phone Architecture (Android’s 1 st iteration) OKL4 a product of Open Kernel Labs

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