Mobile Cloud Computing: Critical Analysis of Application Deployment in Virtual Machines
Muhammad Shiraz, Abdullah Gani · 2012
Abstract. The proliferation of smart mobile devices and incredible deployment of computing as utility in mobile cloud computing leads to the access of computational intensive applications on smart mobile devices. Diverse performance metrics are associated with the execution of applications (cloudlets) in distributed mobile cloud computing environment; such as cloudlet offloading, cloudlet allocation to VM, cloudlet scheduling in VM, cloudlet migration in datacenter and cloudlet reintegration. In this paper we critically investigate the key performance metrics associated with the deployment of VM in execution of cloudlets in cloud computing. We perform experimentation in simulation environment using CloudSim. We analyze the impact of performance metrics on the execution of cloudlets. Variant performance metrics associated with the deployment of VM affect the cloudlet execution; for that reason it is mandatory to efficiently manage the deployment of VMs in cloud infrastructure and exploit optimal techniques for distributed processing to minimize the overhead associated with cloudlet execution.