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Process state synchronization for mobility support in mobile cloud computing / Ejaz Ahmed
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) enables the resource-constrained mobile devices
to execute the compute-intensive mobile applications either in client/server model or
through cyber foraging of the tasks to the cloud servers. However, long or permanent
network disconnections due to user mobility increase the execution time and in certain
cases refrain the mobile devices from getting response back for the remotely performed
execution. This research addresses the effect of mobility on application execution for
mobile cloud-based interactive applications. We propose Process State Synchronization
(PSS) as a mechanism to mitigate the impact of network disconnections on cloud-based
interactive mobile applications. We investigate the impact of varying the synchronization
interval size of PSS algorithms on the performance of application execution. The sufficient
condition and upper bound for the synchronization interval size are also determined
that minimize the execution time, computational wastage, synchronization overhead, and
energy consumption. Results show that PSS reduces the execution time of applications up
to 17% in case of intermittent disconnections. The comparison with existing offloading
mechanisms shows that PSS reduces the execution time by up to 47% in case of intermittent
network connectivity compared to COMET and by up to 35% in case of optimized
VM-based offloading. The improvement in application execution time increases the usability
of interactive mobile applications in MCC