Pi and The Sky : Using Smart Offloading to Improve Performance on Low-cost Computers

This thesis explores a feasible way to implement an efficient interface for offloading computations from affordable computing device to external server in order to achieve increased application performance. Some tests have been done and the results show that the accomplished API is able to realize better perceived performance, and the optimization process has developed API into achieving smart offloading, a mechanism of adaptively determining offloading or not regarding practical situation. The findings in the thesis confirm the potential of utilizing computational offloading on affordable device as an economical method for providing a better user experience