Title
Social-aware hybrid mobile offloading.
Abstract
Mobile offloading is a promising technique to aid the constrained resources of a mobile device. By offloading a computational task, a device can save energy and increase the performance of the mobile applications. Unfortunately, in existing offloading systems, the opportunistic moments to offload a task are often sporadic and short-lived. We overcome this problem by proposing a social-aware hybrid offloading system (HyMobi), which increases the spectrum of offloading opportunities. As a mobile device is always co-located to at least one source of network infrastructure throughout of the day, by merging cloudlet, device-to-device and remote cloud offloading, we increase the availability of offloading support. Integrating these systems is not trivial. In order to keep such coupling, a strong social catalyst is required to foster users participation and collaboration. Thus, we equip our system with an incentive mechanism based on credit and reputation, which exploits users social aspects to create offload communities. We evaluate our system under controlled and in-the-wild scenarios. With credit, it is possible for a device to create opportunistic moments based on users present need. As a result, we extended the widely used opportunistic model with a long-term perspective that significantly improves the offloading process and encourages unsupervised offloading adoption in the wild.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.09.014
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile cloud,Cloudlet,Fog computing,Edge computing,Code offload
Edge computing,Cloudlet,Incentive,Computer science,Computer network,Exploit,Mobile device,Small cell,Cloud computing,Distributed computing,Reputation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
C
1574-1192
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.55
43
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huber Flores118322.47
Rajesh Sharma2327.77
Denzil Ferreira376849.89
Vassilis Kostakos41718138.50
Jukka Manner529039.24
Sasu Tarkoma61312125.76
Pan Hui74577309.30
Yong Li82972218.82