Paper Info
Title
To Offload Or Not To Offload? The Bandwidth And Energy Costs Of Mobile Cloud Computing
Abstract
The cloud seems to be an excellent companion of mobile systems, to alleviate battery consumption on smartphones and to backup user's data on-the-fly. Indeed, many recent works focus on frameworks that enable mobile computation offloading to software clones of smartphones on the cloud and on designing cloud-based backup systems for the data stored in our devices. Both mobile computation offloading and data backup involve communication between the real devices and the cloud. This communication does certainly not come for free. It costs in terms of bandwidth (the traffic overhead to communicate with the cloud) and in terms of energy (computation and use of network interfaces on the device).In this work we study the feasibility of both mobile computation offloading and mobile software/data backups in real-life scenarios. In our study we assume an architecture where each real device is associated to a software clone on the cloud. We consider two types of clones: The off-clone, whose purpose is to support computation offloading, and the back-clone, which comes to use when a restore of user's data and apps is needed. We give a precise evaluation of the feasibility and costs of both off-clones and back-clones in terms of bandwidth and energy consumption on the real device. We achieve this through measurements done on a real testbed of 11 Android smartphones and an equal number of software clones running on the Amazon EC2 public cloud. The smartphones have been used as the primary mobile by the participants for the whole experiment duration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566921
2013 PROCEEDINGS IEEE INFOCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile communication,bandwidth,cloud computing,mobile computing,cloning
Mobile cloud computing,Mobile computing,Mobile search,Computer science,Computer network,Computation offloading,Mobile database,Mobile Web,Operating system,Cloud testing,Cloud computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-166X
107
3.81
References 
Authors
13
4
Search Limit
100107
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Valerio Barbera11788.78
Sokol Kosta227624.92
Alessandro Mei330516.96
Julinda Stefa447725.18