@INPROCEEDINGS{MitraM2C22015,
AUTHOR="Karan Mitra and Saguna Saguna and Christer Åhlund and Daniel Granlund",
TITLE="{M2C2:} A Mobility Management System for Mobile Cloud Computing",
BOOKTITLE="2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC): - Track
3: Mobile and Wireless Networks (IEEE WCNC 2015 - Track 3- Mobile and
Wireless Networks)",
ADDRESS="New Orleans, USA",
PAGES="1626-1631",
DAYS=9,
MONTH=mar,
YEAR=2015,
KEYWORDS="cloud computing; handoffs; mobile cloud computing; mobility management;
prototype; experimentation",
ABSTRACT="Mobile devices have become an integral part of our daily lives.
Applications running on these devices may avail storage and compute
resources from the cloud(s). Further, a mobile device may also connect to
heterogeneous access networks (HANs) such as WiFi and LTE to provide
ubiquitous network connectivity to mobile applications. These devices have
limited resources (compute, storage and battery) that may lead to service
disruptions. In this context, mobile cloud computing enables offloading of
computing and storage to the cloud. However, applications running on mobile
devices using clouds and HANs are prone to unpredictable cloud workloads,
network congestion and handoffs. To run these applications efficiently the
mobile device requires the best possible cloud and network resources while
roaming in HANs. This paper proposes, develops and validates a novel system
called M2C2 which supports mechanisms for: i.) multihoming, ii.) cloud and
network probing, and iii.) cloud and network selection. We built a
prototype system and performed extensive experimentation to validate our
proposed M2C2. Our results analysis shows that the proposed system supports
mobility efficiently in mobile cloud computing."
}