Tradeoff between performance improvement and energy saving in mobile cloud offloading systems

Abstract

Cloud computation offloading is a promising method that sending heavy computation to resourceful servers on cloud and then receiving the results from them. In this paper, we study the offloading techniques and further explore the tradeoff between shortening execution time and extending battery life of mobile devices. A novel adaptive offloading scheme is proposed and analyzed based on the tradeoff analysis. And it can be realized thanks to the elasticity of cloud computing that the resources can be bought on demand. We have tried to find a server on cloud with a critical value of speedup F for a specified mobile device. When satisfying the requirement such as performance improvement by the system, it is worth sacrificing large F when taking economic factor into consideration.