Paper Info
Title
Optimal Cloud-Path Selection in Mobile Cloud Offloading Systems Based on QoS Criteria.
Abstract
Recently, there emerge a variety of clouds in sky and thus, several similar cloud services from different cloud venders can be provided to a mobile end device. The goal of cloud-path selection is to find an optimal cloud-path pair between the mobile device and a cloud among a certain class of clouds that provide the same service, in order to carry out the offloaded computation tasks. It is easy to choose the optimal cloud-path to save execution time incurred by offloading program to cloud when considering only one factor. However, there are many Quality of Service QoS-based criteria such as performance, bandwidth, financial, security and availability that need to be considered when making final decisions. In this paper, a multiple criteria decision analysis approach based on the analytic hierarchy process AHP and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution TOPSIS in a fuzzy environment is proposed to decide which cloud is the most suitable one for offloading. The AHP is used to determine the weights of the criteria for cloud-path selection, while fuzzy TOPSIS is to obtain the final ranking of alternative clouds. The numerical analysis is performed to evaluate the model. Furthermore, a method based on historical data of the mobile device's experiences is used to evaluate the importance weights of the alternative cloud service, when it is challenge to measure and acquire the parameters of criteria timely in practical systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.4018/ijghpc.2013100103
IJGHPC
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple criteria decision analysis,mobile device,qos criteria,optimal cloud-path pair,cloud-path selection,mobile end device,optimal cloud-path selection,alternative cloud,alternative cloud service,mobile cloud offloading systems,different cloud vender,optimal cloud-path,similar cloud service
Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Ranking,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Quality of service,Mobile device,TOPSIS,Analytic hierarchy process,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
4
1938-0259
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.64
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huaming Wu18114.49
Qiushi Wang2588.32
Katinka Wolter338344.10