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Computing While Charging: Building a Distributed Computing Infrastructure Using Smartphones ∗ Mustafa Y. Arslan Indrajeet Singh Shailendra Singh UC Riverside UC Riverside UC Riverside marslan@ singhi@ singhs@ Harsha V. Madhyastha Karthikeyan Sundaresan Srikanth V. UC Riverside NEC Labs America, Inc. Krishnamurthy harsha@ Princeton, NJ, USA UC Riverside karthiks@ krish@ ABSTRACT Keywords Every night, a large number of idle smartphones are plugged into Smartphone, Distributed Computing, Scheduling a power source for recharging the battery. Given the increasing computing capabilities of smartphones, these idle phones consti- 1. INTRODUCTION tute a sizeable computing infrastructure. Therefore, for an enter- Today, a number of organizations supply their employees with prise which supplies its employees with smartphones, we argue smartphones for various reasons [1]; a survey from 2011 [2] reports that a computing infrastructure that leverages idle smartphones be- that 66% of surveyed organizations do so and many of these organi- ing charged overnight is an energy-efficient and cost-effective alter- zations have 75–100% of their employees using smartphones. For native to running tasks on traditio