Abstract
The combination of mobile communications and cloud computing are growing immensely popular. Application designers and architects use cloud technology advantages to deliver data and information to mobile devices as swiftly and seamlessly as possible. However, a critical aspect in this scenario is the factor of routing. Complex routing techniques can use up a lot of energy. Coupled with an increasing number of cloud data centers, this has the potential to leave a negative impact on our environment. An efficient routing model can help lower carbon emissions in the long run. Most existing routing methods involve shortest path routing to ease congestion in mobile networks. Through this paper, the authors examine the shortcomings of such existing protocols. The authors discuss mobile base stations and how routing takes place. An algorithm is presented which illustrate the application of the proposed model as presented in this paper. The proposed model is introduced by the authors in this work as Weight-Based Optimized Routing. Using this new approach, the authors demonstrate a method to lower network congestion and ensure a more smooth data exchange between mobile devices and cloud nodes. A reduction in mobile network congestion situations and enhancement of data transmission rates are vital towards achieving a green cloud computing environment.
Highlights
Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a combination of cloud computing, mobile telephony and wireless networks
Mobile device users no longer have to bank on expensive hardware in order to experience quality applications that might require either extensive computing performance beyond the existing capacities offered by current hardware
We demonstrate a routing algorithm that can be used to implement effective communication in cases where a mobile device may be at the intersection of two mobile base stations
Summary
Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a combination of cloud computing, mobile telephony and wireless networks. It is essentially a concept which allows streaming of feature rich mobile applications in a manner that is beneficial for mobile device users, service and application providers. Mobile device users no longer have to bank on expensive hardware in order to experience quality applications that might require either extensive computing performance beyond the existing capacities offered by current hardware. Service providers can house their operations in Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing models. In a Software-as-a-Service cloud model, entire software suites and products can be served to users over internet and mobile networks without the need for installing whole software on users’ computing devices.
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