Fog-computing based mobility and resource management for resilient mobile networks

Abstract

Mobile networks are facing unprecedented challenges due to the traits of large scale, heterogeneity, and high mobility. Fortunately, the emergence of fog computing offers surprisingly perfect solutions considering the features of consumer proximity, wide-spread geographical distribution, and elastic resource sharing. In this paper, we propose a novel mobile networking framework based on fog computing which outperforms others in resilience. Our scheme is constituted of two parts: the personalized customization mobility management (MM) and the market-driven resource management (RM). The former provides a dynamically customized MM framework for any specific mobile node to optimize the handoff performance according to its traffic and mobility traits; the latter makes room for economic tussles to find out the competitive service providers offering a high level of service quality at sound prices. Synergistically, our proposed MM and RM schemes can holistically support a full-fledged resilient mobile network, which has been practically corroborated by numerical experiments.