Lyapunov Optimization-Based Trade-Off Policy for Mobile Cloud Offloading in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cloud computing Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 491 - 505
• Main Authors: Li, Yun, Xia, Shichao, Zheng, Mengyan, Cao, Bin, Liu, Qilie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Cloud computing; Computation offloading; Delays; Electronic devices; heterogeneous wireless networks; Lyapunov optimization; Mobile cloud computing; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Optimization; Queues; Stochastic processes; Stochastic programming; Tradeoffs; Wireless fidelity; Wireless networks; Workload; Workloads

In order to improve mobile users' service experience, mobile cloud computing (MCC) is promoted. Although MCC can alleviate the burdens of Smart mobile devices (SMDs) by offloading computation-intensive applications to the cloud, it also aggravates computing and storage overheads in cloud center...