Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product Providing Performance and Energy Optimization for Mobile Computing

A mobile device comprising:

• a computer-readable medium that stores computer program instructions;
• a data processor coupled with the computer-readable medium to execute the instructions;
• communication circuitry configured for local area wireless connectivity with neighboring mobile devices and for wireless connectivity to a remote server from which at least a portion of a data set is downloaded;
• where execution of the computer program instructions by the data processor result in performance of operations that comprise,
• estimating a cost to perform a computation task on the data set;
• if the estimated cost is greater than a threshold cost, forming an ad-hoc wireless network with at least one other mobile device;
• downloading the portion of the data set to the mobile device, the downloaded portion of the data set differing from a portion of the data set downloaded by the at least one other mobile device;
• performing a computation task on the portion of the data set that is downloaded to the mobile device;
• and
• wirelessly transferring a result of the computation task from the mobile device to the at least one other mobile device of the ad-hoc wireless network.