MCM Analyzer: A Fuzzy Logic-based Offloading Decision Trade-off for Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing is an emerging solution for remote data processing and offloading. However, simply sending all data to the cloud is sometimes inviable because of security, network and cost issues. Consequently, there should be a trade-off between local and remote processing of data. Hence, an important issue to mobile solutions relies on developing a way to determine which sets of information can be processed locally by the device and which sets of information could be sent to the cloud for remote processing. This paper presents a fuzzy logic-based decision module for mobile cloud computing that can be added to an Android application. Our proposal analyses execution data in real time and helps resolving the local-remote decision trade-off. Experimental results show our proposal offers a promising approach when dealing with such scenarios.