Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
9-23-2014
Abstract
Mobile devices, especially smartphones are increasingly gaining ground in several domains, particularly healthcare, telemonitoring, and education to perform Resource-intensive Mobile Applications (RiMA). However, constrained resources, especially CPU and battery hinder their successful adoption. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) aims to augment computational capabilities of resource-constraint mobile devices and conserve their native resources by remotely performing intensive tasks. In typical MCC solutions, intensive tasks are offloaded to distant VM-based cloud datacenters or cloudlets whose exploitation originates long WAN latency and/or virtualization overhead degrading RiMA execution efficiency. In this paper, a lightweight Resource-oriented MCC (RMCC) architecture is proposed that exploits resources of plethora of Adjacent Service-based Mobile Cloudlets (ASMobiC) as fine-grained mobile service providers. In RMCC, ASMobiCs host prefabricated RESTful services to be asynchronously called by mobile service consumers at runtime. RMCC is a RESTful cross-platform architecture functional on major mobile OSs (e.g., Android and iOS) and realizes utilization of the computing resources of off-the-shelve outdated or damaged-yet-functioning mobile devices towards green MCC. Results of benchmarking advocate significant mean time- and energy-saving of 87% and 71.45%, respectively when intensive tasks are executed in ASMobiCs.
Keywords
Mobile CLoud Computing, computation offloading, Cloudlet, mobile augmentation, battery, energy efficiency
Divisions
Computer
Event Title
6th Internation Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom'14)
Event Location
Singapore
Event Dates
15-18 Dec 2014
Event Type
conference