Device cooperation when performing a task

Abstract

Methods, devices and computer programs are disclosed. The disclosure provides a method performed by a device, wherein the device is associated with a pool of resources, and wherein the device is communicatively coupled to a remote device. The method comprising the steps of obtaining a computing task, the task being associated with at least one performance requirement to be satisfied when performing the task; determining, from the pool of resources, local resources suitable to complete the task; determining, based on the at least one performance requirement and the determined local resources, whether to perform the computing task locally or to offload the computing task to a remote device; when the device determines to offload the computing task, endowing the remote device with a portion of the pool of resources in exchange for offloading the computing task.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.