Optimal Cloud-Path Selection in Mobile Cloud Offloading Systems Based on QoS Criteria

被引:8
作者
Wu, Huaming [1 ]
Wang, Qiushi [1 ]
Wolter, Katinka [1 ]
机构
[1] Free Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany
关键词
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); Cloud Computing; Offloading; Quality of Service (QoS)Based Criteria; Selection; Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS);
D O I
10.4018/ijghpc.2013100103
中图分类号
TP301 [理论、方法];
学科分类号
081202 ;
摘要
Recently, there emerge a variety of clouds in sky and thus, several similar cloud services (from different cloud venders) can be provided to a mobile end device. The goal of cloud-path selection is to find an optimal cloud-path pair between the mobile device and a cloud among a certain class of clouds that provide the same service, in order to carry out the offloaded computation tasks. It is easy to choose the optimal cloud-path to save execution time incurred by offloading program to cloud when considering only one factor. However, there are many Quality of Service (QoS)-based criteria such as performance, bandwidth, financial, security and availability that need to be considered when making final decisions. In this paper, a multiple criteria decision analysis approach based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) in a fuzzy environment is proposed to decide which cloud is the most suitable one for offloading. The AHP is used to determine the weights of the criteria for cloud-path selection, while fuzzy TOPSIS is to obtain the final ranking of alternative clouds. The numerical analysis is performed to evaluate the model. Furthermore, a method based on historical data of the mobile device's experiences is used to evaluate the importance weights of the alternative cloud service, when it is challenge to measure and acquire the parameters of criteria timely in practical systems.
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页数:18
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