Energy-efficient scheduling policy for collaborative execution in mobile cloud computing

Weiwen Zhang, Yonggang Wen, Dapeng Oliver Wu

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling policy for collaborative execution in mobile cloud computing. A mobile application is represented by a sequence of fine-grained tasks formulating a linear topology, and each of them is executed either on the mobile device or offloaded onto the cloud side for execution. The design objective is to minimize the energy consumed by the mobile device, while meeting a time deadline. We formulate this minimum-energy task scheduling problem as a constrained shortest path problem on a directed acyclic graph, and adapt the canonical 'LARAC' algorithm to solving this problem approximately. Numerical simulation suggests that a one-climb offloading policy is energy efficient for the Markovian stochastic channel, in which at most one migration from mobile device to the cloud is taken place for the collaborative task execution. Moreover, compared to standalone mobile execution and cloud execution, the optimal collaborative execution strategy can significantly save the energy consumed on the mobile device. © 2013 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2013
Pages190-194
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2013) - Turin, Italy
Duration: 14 Apr 201319 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Conference

Conference32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2013)
PlaceItaly
CityTurin
Period14/04/1319/04/13

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Research Keywords

  • collaborative execution
  • mobile cloud computing
  • scheduling policy

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