Online algorithms for location-aware task offloading in two-tiered mobile cloud environments

Qiufen Xia, Weifa Liang, Zichuan Xu, Bingbing Zhou

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    Abstract

    Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is emerging as a main ubiquitous computing platform which enables to leverage the resource limitations of mobile devices and wireless networks by offloading data-intensive computation tasks from resource-poor mobile devices to resource-rich clouds. In this paper, we consider an online location-aware offloading problem in a two-tiered mobile cloud computing environment consisting of a local cloudlet and remote clouds, with an objective to fair share the use of the cloudlet by consuming the same proportional of their mobile device energy, while keeping their individual SLA, for which we devise an efficient online algorithm. We also conduct experiments by simulations to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is promising and outperforms other heuristics.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages109-116
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)9781479978816
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Jan 2014
    Event7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014 - London, United Kingdom
    Duration: 8 Dec 201411 Dec 2014

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014

    Conference

    Conference7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2014
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityLondon
    Period8/12/1411/12/14

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