Title
Optimal scheduling for data transmission between mobile devices and cloud
Abstract
Mobile cloud computing has emerged as a new computing paradigm promising to extend the capabilities of resource-constrained mobile devices. In this new paradigm, mobile devices are enabled to offload computing tasks, report sensing records, and store large files on the cloud through wireless networks. Therefore, efficient data transmission has become an important issue affecting user experiences on mobile cloud. Considering the limited battery energy of mobile devices and different application requirements on transmission delay, this study presents an online control algorithm (OPERA) based on the Lyapunov optimization theory for optimally scheduling data transmission between mobile devices and cloud. The OPERA algorithm is able to make control decisions on application scheduling, interface selection and packet dropping to minimize a joint utility of network energy cost and packet dropping penalty, without requiring any statistical information of traffic arrivals and link throughputs. Rigorous analysis and extensive simulations have demonstrated its distinguished performance in terms of utility optimality, system stability and service delay.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.ins.2014.12.059
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
dynamic scheduling,energy efficiency,lyapunov optimization
Mobile computing,Mobile cloud computing,Wireless network,Computer science,Transmission delay,Computer network,Lyapunov optimization,Mobile device,Dynamic priority scheduling,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
301
C
0020-0255
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.42
25
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weiwei Fang124717.51
Xiaoyan Yin27714.85
Yuan An391.47
Naixue Xiong42413194.61
Qiwang Guo560.42
Jing Li6996.73