Handoff Strategy for Improving Energy Efficiency and Cloud Service Availability for Mobile Devices
The increase in capabilities of mobile devices to perform computation tasks has led to increase in energy consumption. While offloading the computation tasks helps in reducing the energy consumption, service availability is a cause of major concern. Thus, the main objective of this work is to reduce the energy consumption of mobile device, while maximising the service availability for users. The multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) TOPSIS method prioritises among the service providing resources such as Cloud, Cloudlet and peer mobile devices. The superior one is chosen for offloading. While availing service from a resource, the proposed fuzzy vertical handoff algorithm triggers handoff from a resource to another, when the energy consumption of the device increases or the connection time with the resource decreases. In addition, parallel execution of tasks is performed to conserve energy of the mobile device. The results of experimental setup with opennebula Cloud platform, Cloudlets and Android mobile devices on various network environments, suggest that handoff from one resource to another is by far more beneficial in terms of energy consumption and service availability for mobile users.
energy efficiency vertical handoff mobile cloud computing cloud service provisioning wireless technologies