CTOM: Collaborative task offloading mechanism for mobile cloudlet networks

Xiaochen Fan, Xiangjian He, Deepak Puthal, Shiping Chen, Chaocan Xiang, Priyadarsi Nanda, Xunpeng Rao

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Abstract

Mobile cloud computing has emerged as a pervasive paradigm to execute computing tasks for capacity- limited mobile devices. More specifically, at the network edge, the resource-rich and trusted cloudlet system is acting as a 'data center in a box' to support compute-intensive mobile applications. The mobile cloudlets can provide in-proximity services by executing the workloads for nearby devices. Nevertheless, load balancing in mobile cloudlet network is of great importance, as it has a huge impact on task response time. Existing methods for cloudlet load balancing basically rely on the strategic placement or user cooperation. However, the above solutions require the global task load information from the whole network, which is costly in both communication and computation. To achieve more efficient and low-cost load balancing, we propose 'CTOM', a Collaborative Task Offioading Mechanism for mobile cloudlet networks. Our solution is based on the balls-and-bins theory and can balance the task load only requiring limited information. Extensive simulations and evaluation based on mobility trace demonstrate that, our CTOM outperforms the conventional random and proportional allocation schemes by reducing the task gaps among mobile cloudlets by 65% and 55% respectively. Meanwhile, CTOM's performance is close to that of the greedy algorithm but with much lower computing complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781538631805
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: 20 May 201824 May 2018

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2018-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period20/05/1824/05/18

Keywords

  • Load balancing
  • Mobile cloudlet network
  • Task allocation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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