An online algorithm for task offloading in heterogeneous mobile clouds

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a promising approach to enrich user experiences at the mobile device end. Computation offloading in a heterogeneous mobile cloud environment has recently drawn increasing attention in research. The computation offloading decision making and tasks scheduling among heterogeneous shared resources in mobile clouds are becoming challenging problems in terms of providing global optimal task response time and energy efficiency. In this article, we address these two problems together in a heterogeneous mobile cloud environment as an optimization problem. Different from conventional distributed computing system scheduling problems, our joint offloading and schedu..