Abstract
Mobile cloud computing, which integrates the cloud computing techniques into the mobile environment, is regarded as one of the enabler technologies for 5G mobile wireless networks. There are many sporadic spare resources distributed within various devices in the networks, which can be used to support mobile cloud applications. However, these devices, with only a few spare resources, cannot support some resource-intensive mobile applications alone. If some of them cooperate with each other and share their resources, then they can support many applications. In this paper, we propose a resource cooperative provision mode referred to as "Crowd-funding", which is designed to aggregate the distributed devices together as the resource provider of mobile applications. Moreover, to facilitate high-efficiency resource management via dynamic resource allocation, different resource providers should be selected to form a stable resource coalition for different requirements. Thus, considering different requirements, we propose two different resource aggregation models for coalition formation. Finally, we may allocate the revenues based on their attributions according to the concept of the "Shapley value" to enable a more impartial revenue share among the cooperators. It is shown that a dynamic and flexible resource-management method can be developed based on the proposed Crowd-funding model, relying on the spare resources in the network.
Highlights
With the rapid development of mobile communication techniques, both the number of mobile terminals and the number of mobile applications are undergoing an exponential growth
To address the above-mentioned challenges, mobile cloud computing technology came into being by integrating the cloud computing techniques into the wireless mobile network [2,3], which is capable of offloading the burdens of both data storage
Mobile cloud computing can conserve the energy of mobile devices and reduce the execution time of mobile applications [7, 8]
Summary
With the rapid development of mobile communication techniques, both the number of mobile terminals and the number of mobile applications are undergoing an exponential growth. Considering the insufficiency of resources in a single device, we propose a new resource cooperation mode referred to as "Crowd-funding". In the proposed "Crowd-funding" mode, devices with spare resources distributed in a network can be integrated to form cooperation coalitions, and providing resources for mobile cloud services. To enforce high flexibility on the resource management functionality, we present two resource aggregation models according to the otherness of application requirements. In Crowd-funding, geography-distributed devices with spare resources are able to cooperate with each other and aggregate into a resource coalition dynamically according to different application requirements. They can receive some revenues according to their contributions.
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