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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2013.2.8.507

Methods for Stabilizing QoS in Mobile Cloud Computing  

La, Hyun Jung (숭실대학교 모바일 서비스 소프트웨어공학 센터)
Kim, Soo Dong (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학부)
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KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering / v.2, no.8, 2013 , pp. 507-516 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mobile devices have limited computing power and resources. Since mobile devices are equipped with rich network connectivity, an approach to subscribe cloud services can effectively remedy the problem, which is called Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). Most works on MCC depend on a method to offload functional components at runtime. However, these works only consider the limited verion of offloading to a pre-defined, designated node. Moveover, there is the limitation of managing services subscribed by applications. To provide a comprehensive and practical solution for MCC, in this paper, we propose a self-stabilizing process and its management-related methods. The proposed process is based on an autonomic computing paradigm and works with diverse quality remedy actions such as migration or replicating services. And, we devise a pratical offloading mechanism which is still in an initial stage of the study. The proposed offloading mechanism is based on our proposed MCC meta-model. By adopting the self-stabilization process for MCC, many of the technical issues are effectively resolved, and mobile cloud environments can maintain consistent levels of quality in autonomous manner.
Keywords
Mobile Cloud Computing; QoS; Autonomous Management; Self-stabilization; Offloading;
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