Use of Context Aware Game Theoretic Approach to Minimize the Overall Energy Consumption of Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is an emerging technology which has been an important and a hot research topic, recently. It is a boon for resource constrained mobile phones as it allows them to offload the computation to the cloud servers, which helps them to execute the code remotely. There have been various models, designs, techniques and tools to support the MCC but as the user base and their demands are increasing day by day, we are required to come up with more efficient models which are well- defined and cost-effective. Building block of MCC or any such technology is user, no user no usage. Hence, the cost of this technology must be minimized, for the growth of MCC. In this paper, we talk about the role of energy consumption in reducing the cost of MCC for the mobile user. We propose a context-aware-game-theoretic approach to minimize the overall energy consumption of the MCC system; which, in turn, will minimize the cost of the service, for the user.