A novel data size-aware offloading technique for resource provisioning in mobile cloud computing

Mobile device users are involved in social networking, gaming, learning, and even some office work, so the end users expect mobile devices with high-response computing capacities, storage, and high battery power consumption. The data-intensive applications, such as text search, online gaming, and face recognition usage, have tremendously increased. With such high complex applications, there are many issues in mobile devices, namely, fast battery draining, limited power, low storage capacity, and increased energy consumption. The novelty of this work is to strike a balance between time and energy consumption of mobile devices while using data-intensive applications by finding the optimal offloading decisions. This paper proposes a novel efficient Data Size-Aware Offloading Model (DSAOM) for data-intensive applications and to predict the appropriate resource provider for dynamic resource allocation in mobile cloud computing. Based on the data size, the tasks are separated and gradually allocated to the appropriate resource providers for execution. The task is placed into the appropriate resource provider by considering the availability services in the fog nodes or the cloud. The tasks are split into smaller portions for execution in the neighbor fog nodes. To execute the task in the remote side, the offloading decision is made by using the min-cut algorithm by considering the monetary cost of the mobile device. This proposed system achieves low-latency time 13.2% and low response time 14.1% and minimizes 24% of the energy consumption over the existing model. Finally, according to experimental findings, this framework efficiently lowers energy use and improves performance for data-intensive demanding application activities, and the task offloading strategy is effective for intensive offloading requests.     

Learning for Smart Edge: Cognitive Learning-Based Computation Offloading

With the development of intelligent applications, more and more intelligent applications are computation intensive, data intensive and delay sensitive. Compared with traditional cloud computing, edge computing can reduce communication delay by offloading computing tasks to edge cloud. Furthermore, with the complexity of computing scenarios in edge cloud, deep learning based on computation offloading scheme has attracted wide attention. However, all the learning-based offloading scheme does not consider the where and how to run the offloading scheme itself. Thus, in this paper, we consider the problem of running the learning-based computation offloading scheme for the first time and propose the learning for smart edge architecture. Then, we give the computation offloading optimization problem of mobile devices under multi-user and multi edge cloud scenarios. Furthermore, we propose cognitive learning-based computation offloading (CLCO) scheme for this problem. Finally, experimental results show that compared with other offloading schemes, the CLCO scheme has lower task duration and energy consumption.

     

Efficient Computation Offloading Decision in Mobile Cloud Computing over 5G Network

Due to the significant advancement of Smartphone technology, the applications targeted for these devices are getting more and more complex and demanding of high power and resources. Mobile cloud computing (MCC) allows the Smart phones to perform these highly demanding tasks with the help of powerful cloud servers. However, to decide whether a given part of an application is cost-effective to execute in local mobile device or in the cloud server is a difficult problem in MCC. It is due to the trade-off between saving energy consumption while maintaining the strict latency requirements of applications. Currently, 5th generation mobile network (5G) is getting much attention, which can support increased network capacity, high data rate and low latency and can pave the way for solving the computation offloading problem in MCC. In this paper, we design an intelligent computation offloading system that takes tradeoff decisions for code offloading from a mobile device to cloud server over the 5G network. We develop a metric for tradeoff decision making that can maximize energy saving while maintain strict latency requirements of user applications in the 5G system. We evaluate the performances of the proposed system in a test-bed implementation, and the results show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy, computation and energy saving.     

A Distributed and Elastic Application Processing Model for Mobile Cloud Computing

The latest developments in mobile computing technology have increased the computing capabilities of smart mobile devices (SMDs). However, SMDs are still constrained by low bandwidth, processing potential, storage capacity, and battery lifetime. To overcome these problems, the rich resources and powerful computational cloud is tapped for enabling intensive applications on SMDs. In Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), application processing services of computational clouds are leveraged for alleviating resource limitations in SMDs. The particular deficiency of distributed architecture and runtime partitioning of the elastic mobile application are the challenging aspects of current offloading models. To address these issues of traditional models for computational offloading in MCC, this paper proposes a novel distributed and elastic applications processing (DEAP) model for intensive applications in MCC. We present an analytical model to evaluate the proposed DEAP model, and test a prototype application in the real MCC environment to demonstrate the usefulness of DEAP model. Computational offloading using the DEAP model minimizes resources utilization on SMD in the distributed processing of intensive mobile applications. Evaluation indicates a reduction of 74.6% in the overhead of runtime application partitioning and a 66.6% reduction in the CPU utilization for the execution of the application on SMD.

     

A web service‐based internet of things framework for mobile resource augmentation

Mobile devices are the primary communication tool in day to day life of the people. Nowadays, the enhancement of the mobile applications namely IoTApps and their exploitation in various domains like healthcare monitoring, home automation, smart farming, smart grid, and smart city are crucial. Though mobile devices are providing seamless user experience anywhere, anytime, and anyplace, their restricted resources such as limited battery capacity, constrained processor speed, inadequate storage, and memory are hindering the development of resource‐intensive mobile applications and internet of things (IoT)‐based mobile applications. To solve this resource constraint problem, a web service‐based IoT framework is proposed by exploiting fuzzy logic methodologies. This framework augments the resources of mobile devices by offloading the resource‐intensive subtasks from mobile devices to the service providing entities like Arduino, Raspberry PI controller, edge cloud, and distant cloud. Based on the recommended framework, an online Repository of Instructional Talk (RIoTalk) is successfully implemented to store and analyze the classroom lectures given by faculty in our study site. Simulation results show that there is a significant reduction in energy consumption, execution time, bandwidth utilization, and latency. The proposed research work significantly increases the resources of mobile devices by offloading the resource‐intensive subtasks from the mobile device to the service provider computing entities thereby providing Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) to mobile users.     

Cuckoo: flexible compute‐intensive task offloading in mobile cloud computing

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is an emerging technology to facilitate complex application execution on mobile devices. Mobile users are motivated to implement various tasks using their mobile devices for great flexibility and portability. However, such advantages are challenged by the limited battery life of mobile devices. This paper presents Cuckoo, a scheme of flexible compute‐intensive task offloading in MCC for energy saving. Cuckoo seeks to balance the key design goals: maximize energy saving (technical feasibility) and minimize the impact on user experience with limited cost for offloading (realistic feasibility). Specifically, using a combination of static analysis and dynamic profiling, compute‐intensive tasks are fine‐grained marked from mobile application codes offline. According to the network transmission technologies supported in mobile devices and the runtime network conditions, adopting “task‐bundled” strategy online offloads these tasks to MCC. In the task‐hosted stage, we propose a skyline‐based online resource scheduling strategy to satisfy the realistic feasibility of MCC. In addition, we adopt resource reservation to reduce the extra energy consumption caused by the task multi‐offloading phenomenon. Further, we evaluate the performance of Cuckoo using real‐life data sets on our MCC testbed. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that Cuckoo is able to balance energy consumption and execution performance. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Energy‐aware dynamic task offloading and collective task execution in mobile cloud computing

There is a good opportunity for enlightening the services of the mobile devices by introducing computational offloading using cloud technology. Offloading is a process for managing the complexity of the mobile environment by migrating computational load to the cloud. The mobile devices oblige the quick response for the offloading requests; it is dependent on network connectivity. The cloud services take long set‐up time irrespective of network connectivity. In this paper, new system architecture for the dynamic task offloading in the mobile cloud environment is proposed. The architecture includes the offloading algorithm that concentrates on energy consumption of the tasks both in the local and remote environment. The proposed algorithm formulates a collective task execution model for minimizing the energy consumption. The architecture concentrates on the network model by considering the task completion time in three different network scenarios. The experimental results show the efficiency of the suggested architecture in reducing the energy consumption and completion time of the tasks.     

基于终端能耗和系统时延最小化的边缘计算卸载及资源分配机制

通过移动边缘计算下移云端的应用功能和处理能力支撑计算密集或时延敏感任务的执行成为当前的发展趋势。但面对众多移动终端用户时,如何有效利用计算资源有限的边缘节点来保障终端用户服务质量(QoS)成为关键问题。为此,该文融合边缘云与远端云构建了一种分层的边缘云计算架构,以此架构为基础,以最小化移动设备能耗和任务执行时间为目标,将问题形式化描述为资源约束下的最小化能耗和时延加权和的凸优化问题,并提出基于乘子法的计算卸载及资源分配机制解决该问题。实验结果表明,在计算任务量很大的情况下,提出的计算卸载及资源分配机制能够有效降低移动终端能耗,并在任务执行时延方面较局部计算与计算卸载机制分别降低最高60%与10%,提高系统性能。     

基于拉格朗日的计算迁移能耗优化策略

随着移动网络技术的发展和智能终端的普及应用,移动边缘计算已成为云计算的一个重要应用。计算迁移策略已成为移动边缘计算服务的关键问题之一。以移动终端总的计算时间和移动终端能耗最小化为目标,将移动终端的计算迁移资源划分问题建模为一个凸优化问题,运用拉格朗日乘子法进行求解,提出基于阈值的迁移优化策略模型。仿真实验表明,本迁移优化策略模型能有效平衡本地计算和迁移计算之间的关系,为移动边缘计算中执行计算密集型应用提供保障。     

Survey on computation offloading in mobile edge computing

Computation offloading in mobile edge computing would transfer the resource intensive computational tasks to the edge network.It can not only solve the shortage of mobile user equipment in resource storage,computation performance and energy efficiency,but also deal with the problem of resource occupation,high latency and network load compared to cloud computing.Firstly the architecture of MEC was introduce and a comparative analysis was made according to various deployment schemes.Then the key technologies of computation offloading was studied from three aspects of decision on computation offloading,allocation of computing resource within MEC and system implement of MEC.Based on the analysis of MEC deployment scheme in 5G,two optimization schemes on computation offloading was proposed in 5G MEC.Finally,the current challenges in the mobility management was summarized,interference management and security of computation offloading in MEC.     

An efficient algorithm for dynamic task offloading using cloudlets in mobile cloud computing

It is a visible fact that the growth of mobile devices is enormous. More computations are required to be carried out for various applications in these mobile devices. But the drawback of the mobile devices is less computation power and low available energy. The mobile cloud computing helps in resolving these issues by integrating the mobile devices with cloud technology. Again, the issue is increased in the latency as the task and data to be offloaded to the cloud environment uses WAN. Hence, to decrease the latency, this paper proposes cloudlet‐based dynamic task offloading (CDTO) algorithm where the task can be executed in device environment, cloudlet environment, cloud server environment, and integrated environment. The proposed algorithm, CDTO, is tested in terms of energy consumption and completion time.     

Contract-theoretic Approach for Delay Constrained Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks

Mobile Networks and Applications - Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution to improve vehicular services through offloading computation to cloud servers in close proximity to mobile...     

Cluster-PSO Based Resource Orchestration for Multi-task Applications in Vehicular Cloud

Vehicular cloud computing (VCC) provides a vehicular user attaching several resources with different types at the same time. Additionally, the vehicular applications especially for big data processing are always complicated and may be decomposed into several fine-grained tasks. When offloading the complicated multi-task application to the vehicular clouds, the task executes individually in terms of its own computation, storage and bandwidth requirement. Different from the task offloading in mobile cloud computing which aims to optimize the energy consumption, the important metric for vehicular users is the application delay. Moreover, the moving vehicles always have the similar resource properties and may form the solution clusters when finding the resource orchestration policy, which brings an opportunity of improving resource orchestration performance. In this paper, we formulate the VCC resource orchestration as an optimization problem, and propose a cluster-particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to obtain the resource orchestration policy. A fast cluster algorithm is used to divide the solution space and generate sub-swarms for better exploring the orchestration solutions. The experiment results show that the cluster-PSO algorithm can achieve a higher resource orchestration accuracy in an acceptable time comparing to the other PSO algorithms. Especially, when there are more tasks in an application and the vehicle has more optional VCC resources, the performance of the cluster-PSO based resource orchestration is outstanding.     

Deep reinforcement learning-based joint task offloading and bandwidth allocation for multi-user mobile edge computing

The rapid growth of mobile internet services has yielded a variety of computation-intensive applications such as virtual/augmented reality. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which enables mobile terminals to offload computation tasks to servers located at the edge of the cellular networks, has been considered as an efficient approach to relieve the heavy computational burdens and realize an efficient computation offloading. Driven by the consequent requirement for proper resource allocations for computation offloading via MEC, in this paper, we propose a Deep-Q Network (DQN) based task offloading and resource allocation algorithm for the MEC. Specifically, we consider a MEC system in which every mobile terminal has multiple tasks offloaded to the edge server and design a joint task offloading decision and bandwidth allocation optimization to minimize the overall offloading cost in terms of energy cost, computation cost, and delay cost. Although the proposed optimization problem is a mixed integer nonlinear programming in nature, we exploit an emerging DQN technique to solve it. Extensive numerical results show that our proposed DQN-based approach can achieve the near-optimal performance.     

Energy‐aware cross‐layer resource allocation in mobile cloud

This paper proposed an energy‐aware cross‐layer mobile cloud resource allocation approach. In this paper, a hybrid cloud architecture is adopted for provisioning mobile service to mobile device users, which include nearby local cloud and remote public cloud. The computation‐intensive tasks can be processed by the remote public cloud, while the delay‐sensitive computation can be processed by the nearby local cloud. On the basis of the system context and mobile user preferences, the energy‐aware cross‐layer mobile cloud resource allocation approach can optimize the consumption of cloud resource and system performance. The cooperation and collaboration among local cloud agent, public cloud supplier, and mobile cloud user are regulated through the economic approach. The energy‐aware cross‐layer mobile cloud resource allocation is performed on the local cloud level and the public cloud level, which comprehensively considers the benefits of all participants. The energy‐aware cross‐layer mobile cloud resource allocation algorithm is proposed, which is evaluated in the experiment environment, and comparison results and analysis are discussed.     

基于深度强化学习的云边协同计算迁移研究

基于单一边缘节点计算、存储资源的有限性及大数据场景对高效计算服务的需求,本文提出了一种基于深度强化学习的云边协同计算迁移机制.具体地,基于计算资源、带宽和迁移决策的综合性考量,构建了一个最小化所有用户任务执行延迟与能耗权重和的优化问题.基于该优化问题提出了一个异步云边协同的深度强化学习算法,该算法充分利用了云边双方的计...     

基于二次规划的任务卸载决策和资源分配方法

主要研究移动用户均有多个独立任务的多用户移动云计算系统,这些移动用户将任务卸载到云端时共享通信资源。如何对所有用户的任务卸载决策和通信资源分配进行联合优化,以便使所有用户的能耗、计算量和延时降到最低是目前研究的难点。将该问题建模为NP难度的非凸的具有二次约束的二次规划(QCQP)问题,提出一种高效的近似算法进行求解,通过单独的半正定松驰(SDR)处理后,确定二元卸载决策和通信资源最优分配。采用代表最小系统成本的性能下界作为性能基准进行仿真实验,结果表明,本文算法在多种参数配置下的性能均接近最优性能。     

移动边缘计算卸载技术综述

移动边缘计算(Mobile Edge Computing,MEC)将云服务器的计算资源扩展到更靠近用户一侧的网络边缘,使得用户可以将任务卸载到边缘服务器,从而克服原先云计算中将任务卸载到云服务器所带来的高时延问题。首先介绍了移动边缘计算的基本概念、基本框架和应用场景,然后围绕卸载决策、联合资源分配的卸载决策分别从单MEC服务器和多MEC服务器两种场景总结了任务卸载技术的研究现状,最后结合当前MEC卸载技术中存在的不足展望了未来MEC卸载技术的研究。     

MEC系统中基于多智能体深度增强学习的协作式任务卸载和资源分配

移动边缘计算(MEC)通过将计算任务卸载到MEC服务器上,在缓解智能移动设备计算负载的同时,可以降低服务时延。然而目前在MEC系统中,关于任务卸载和资源分配仍然存在以下问题：1)边缘节点间缺乏协作;2)计算任务到达与实际环境中动态变化的特征不匹配;3)协作式任务卸载和资源分配动态联合优化问题。为解决上述问题,文章在协作式MEC架构的基础上,提出了一种基于多智能体的深度确定性策略梯度算法(MADDPG)的任务卸载和资源分配算法,最小化系统中所有用户的长期平均成本。仿真结果表明,该算法可以有效降低系统的时延及能耗。     

Joint offloading strategy based on quantum particle swarm optimization for MEC-enabled vehicular networks

With the development of the mobile communication technology, a wide variety of envisioned intelligent transportation systems have emerged and put forward more stringent requirements for vehicular communications. Most of computation-intensive and power-hungry applications result in a large amount of energy consumption and computation costs, which bring great challenges to the on-board system. It is necessary to exploit traffic offloading and scheduling in vehicular networks to ensure the Quality of Experience (QoE). In this paper, a joint offloading strategy based on quantum particle swarm optimization for the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enabled vehicular networks is presented. To minimize the delay cost and energy consumption, a task execution optimization model is formulated to assign the task to the available service nodes, which includes the service vehicles and the nearby Road Side Units (RSUs). For the task offloading process via Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communication, a vehicle selection algorithm is introduced to obtain an optimal offloading decision sequence. Next, an improved quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm for joint offloading is proposed to optimize the task delay and energy consumption. To maintain the diversity of the population, the crossover operator is introduced to exchange information among individuals. Besides, the crossover probability is defined to improve the search ability and convergence speed of the algorithm. Meanwhile, an adaptive shrinkage expansion factor is designed to improve the local search accuracy in the later iterations. Simulation results show that the proposed joint offloading strategy can effectively reduce the system overhead and the task completion delay under different system parameters.