TY - JOUR
T1 - Directory-based incentive management services for ad-hoc mobile clouds
AU - Yousafzai, Abdullah
AU - Chang, Victor
AU - Gani, Abdullah
AU - Noor, Rafidah Md
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is fully funded by the Bright Spark Program and partially funded by the High Impact Research Grant from the University of Malaya under references BSP/APP/1635/2013 and UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOE/FCSIT/03, respectively.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Mobile cloud computing is envisioned as a promising approach to augment the computational capabilities of mobile devices for emerging resource-intensive mobile applications. This augmentation is generally achieved through the capabilities of stationary resources in cloud data centers. However, these resources are mostly not free and sometimes not available. Mobile devices are becoming powerful day by day and can form a self-organizing mobile ad-hoc network of nearby devices and offer their resources as on-demand services to available nodes in the network. In the ad-hoc mobile cloud, devices can move after consuming or providing services to one another. During this process, the problem of incentives arises for a node to provide service to another device (or other devices) in the network, which ultimately decreases the motivation of the mobile device to form an ad-hoc mobile cloud. To solve this problem, we propose a directory-based architecture that keeps track of the retribution and reward valuations (in terms of energy saved and consumed) for devices even after they move from one ad-hoc environment to another. From simulation results, we infer that this framework increases the motivation for mobile devices to form a self-organizing proximate mobile cloud network and to share their resources in the network.
AB - Mobile cloud computing is envisioned as a promising approach to augment the computational capabilities of mobile devices for emerging resource-intensive mobile applications. This augmentation is generally achieved through the capabilities of stationary resources in cloud data centers. However, these resources are mostly not free and sometimes not available. Mobile devices are becoming powerful day by day and can form a self-organizing mobile ad-hoc network of nearby devices and offer their resources as on-demand services to available nodes in the network. In the ad-hoc mobile cloud, devices can move after consuming or providing services to one another. During this process, the problem of incentives arises for a node to provide service to another device (or other devices) in the network, which ultimately decreases the motivation of the mobile device to form an ad-hoc mobile cloud. To solve this problem, we propose a directory-based architecture that keeps track of the retribution and reward valuations (in terms of energy saved and consumed) for devices even after they move from one ad-hoc environment to another. From simulation results, we infer that this framework increases the motivation for mobile devices to form a self-organizing proximate mobile cloud network and to share their resources in the network.
KW - Ad-hoc mobile cloud
KW - Applications and business prospects
KW - Directory service
KW - Incentives
KW - Mobile cloud computing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.05.019
DO - 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.05.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975145734
SN - 0268-4012
VL - 36
SP - 900
EP - 906
JO - International Journal of Information Management
JF - International Journal of Information Management
IS - 6
ER -