Optimal Cloudlet Placement and User to Cloudlet Allocation in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cloud computing Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 725 - 737
• Main Authors: Jia, Mike, Jiannong Cao, Weifa Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Computer Society 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Cloud computing; Cloudlet placements; Delays; mobile cloud computing; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; mobile task offloading; mobile user allocation; task response time minimization; Time factors

Mobile applications are becoming increasingly computation-intensive, while the computing capability of portable mobile devices is limited. A powerful way to reduce the completion time of an application in a mobile device is to offload its tasks to nearby cloudlets, which consist of clusters of compu...