Research Article
A Cloud Service Enhanced Method Supporting Context-Aware Applications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_22, author={Zifan Liu and Qing Cai and Song Wang and Xiaolong Xu and Wanchun Dou and Shui Yu}, title={A Cloud Service Enhanced Method Supporting Context-Aware Applications}, proceedings={Mobile Networks and Management. 9th International Conference, MONAMI 2017, Melbourne, Australia, December 13-15, 2017, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={MONAMI}, year={2018}, month={5}, keywords={Cloud service Context-aware applications Mobile cloud computing Cloudlet Cost savings}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_22} }- Zifan Liu
Qing Cai
Song Wang
Xiaolong Xu
Wanchun Dou
Shui Yu
Year: 2018
A Cloud Service Enhanced Method Supporting Context-Aware Applications
MONAMI
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_22
Abstract
Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a powerful platform for running demanding applications migrated from mobile devices to a remote cloud. For some real-time or urgent deadline-constrained applications, the migration process generates intolerable transmission latency. Cloudlets co-located with Access Points (APs) are considered as an efficient way to reduce such transmission latency. However, it is still a challenge to manage the cloudlets that have been deployed for fixed context-aware applications to achieve cost savings. In view of this challenge, a cloud service enhanced method supporting context-aware applications is proposed in this paper. Specifically, a cloudlet management principle is designed to provide a reference for cloudlet status judgment. Then a relevant cloud service enhanced method is proposed to decide which active cloudlets should be shut down. Finally, the experimental and analytical results demonstrate the validity of our proposed method.