Title: Task offloading concept using cloud simulations in mobile computing

Authors: Sam Goundar; Akashdeep Bhardwaj; Shalmendra Chand

Addresses: School of Computing, British University Vietnam, Eco Park, Van Giang, Hanoi, Vietnam ' University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, 248007, India ' School of Computing and Information Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Campus, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji

Abstract: The seamless execution of application is important in mobile cloud applications. The limited processing power of mobile devices with insufficient resources to handle computational processing of complex applications is compared to the cloud infrastructure, which can handle multiple tasks simultaneously due to its multiple virtual machines and hosts. By simulating the concept of task offloading, application partitioning is handled to accommodate heavy computing requirements for mobile devices with insufficient resources. This research paper proposes the usage of CloudSim to simulate cloud architecture and the task-offloading concept using cloudlets. The authors present various application offloading architecture, cloudlet architecture, security challenges and issues in the realm of mobile cloud computing.

Keywords: mobile cloud; application partitioning; CloudSim; mobile cloud applications; task offloading.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSCC.2021.116752

International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications, 2021 Vol.12 No.3, pp.243 - 263

Received: 26 Dec 2019
Accepted: 04 Oct 2020
Published online: 01 Aug 2021 *

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