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Opportunistic Use of Cloud Computing for Smart Mobile Applications: Realizing Qo*-awareness with Dynamic Decision Networks in Execution

Authors:
Nayyab Zia Naqvi
Davy Preuveneers
Yolande Berbers

Keywords: dynamic deployment; Bayesian models; mobile cloud computing; smart applications; decision support.

Abstract:
Smart and context-aware Mobile Cloud Computing applications challenge the way Quality-of-Service and Quality-of- Context are maintained when operating with a federated mobile cloud environment. Many resource and performance trade-offs exist for the federated deployment of smart mobile applications. Consequently, finding the best strategy to deploy and configure intelligent applications in this federated environment is a nontrivial task. We analyse the challenges and requirements for the dynamic deployment of smart applications in such a setting and present a quality-aware federated framework for the development and deployment of smart mobile applications to use the cloud opportunistically. Our framework utilizes Qo*-awareness and dynamic adaptability to account for the uncertain conditions given the partially observable context. Experiments with our framework demonstrate the feasibility and the potential benefits to automate the deployment and configuration decisions in the presence of a changing environment and runtime variability.

Pages: 38 to 52

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2015

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628