A Data Offloading Mechanism with Decision-Making

• Joari S. L. Filho UFC
• Manuel G. da S. Neto UFC
• Paulo A. L. Rego UFC
• Danielo G. Gomes UFC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wperformance.2017.3350

Abstract

In the mobile cloud computing paradigm, offloading techniques are used to augment computation and power capacities of mobile devices as well as to reduce the execution time of tasks. In this paper, we propose a data offloading mechanism that selects and migrates files to a local infrastructure (cloudlet), assisting computation offloading frameworks to reduce the amount of data sent over the network. The mechanism uses the application methods execution history, as well as the network condition, to create decision trees that help deciding when and which files used by these methods should be transferred. The experiments results indicate that our mechanism reduces the processing offloading time by up to 19.5%.

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