Design and analysis of a service migration framework

Users often use several heterogeneous devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, tablets, handheld devices, PC and laptops to carry out their tasks. These user devices foster a needs for tasks migration from one device to another device at runtime, making it easier for the user to continue his task on another device. For such a need, an architecture is proposed to design and develop applications that migrate from one device to another and resume its operation. A simple application was constructed based on the proposed framework. Experiments were carried out to demonstrate its applicability, and to support experimenting with, for example timestamping different parts of the migration process.