A Multi-criteria Resource Allocation Mechanism for Mobile Clouds

Autor: Simin Ghasemi Falavarjani, Mohammad Ali Nematbakhsh, Behrouz Shahgholi Ghahfarokhi
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN: 9783319109022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10903-9_12
Popis: Due to resource scarcity of mobile devices in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), intensive computing applications are offloaded into the cloud. There is a three-tier architecture for MCC consisting of distant cloud servers, nearby cloudlets and adjacent mobile devices. In this paper, we consider third tier. We propose an Optimal Fair Multi-criteria Resource Allocation (OFMRA) algorithm that minimizes the completion time of offloading applications along maximizing lifetime of mobile devices. Furthermore to stimulate selfish devices to participate in offloading, a virtual price based incentive mechanism is presented. The paper also designs an Offloading Mobile Cloud Framework (OMCF) which collects profile information and handles the offloading process. A prototype of the proposed method has been implemented and evaluated using a high computational load application. The results show that the proposed algorithm manages the tradeoff between optimizing completion time and energy well and improves the performance of offloading using the incentive mechanism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE