An auction-based incentive mechanism for heterogeneous mobile clouds

Abstract

Traditional mobile cloud computing (MCC) adopts a onefold mobile device and public cloud paradigm. As the mobile device capabilities continue to develop, their opportunistic utilization in MCC has recently gained popularity. The new paradigm is a hybrid/heterogeneous mobile cloud (HMC) where mobile devices, cloudlets, and private/public cloud form a shared resource network for task offloading. However, mobile device users are discouraged from sharing their devices for running foreign tasks due to the battery life and privacy concerns. To incentivize mobile device users to utilize and participate in the HMC offloading service, we designed a task offloading market for the HMC service, where a ..