Joint uplink/downlink and offloading optimization for mobile cloud computing with limited backhaul

Ali Najdi Al-Shuwaili, Alireza Bagheri, Osvaldo Simeone

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Abstract

Mobile cloud computing enables the offloading of computationally heavy applications, such as for gaming, object recognition or video processing, from mobile users (MUs) to a cloud server connected to wireless access points. The optimization of the operation of a mobile cloud computing system amounts to the problem of minimizing the energy required for offloading across all MUs under latency constraints at the application layer. In a scenario with multiple MUs transmitting over a shared wireless medium across multiple cells, this problem requires the management of interference for both the uplink, through which MUs offload the data needed for computation in the cloud, and for the downlink, through which the outcome of the cloud computation are fed back to the MUs, as well as the allocation of backhaul resources for communication between wireless edge and cloud and of computing resources at the cloud. In this paper, this problem is formulated for general multi-antenna, or MIMO, channels, and tackled by means of successive convex approximation methods. The numerical results illustrate the advantages of a joint allocation of computing and communication resources.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages424-429
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467394574
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 26 2016
Event50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016 - Princeton, United States
Duration: Mar 16 2016Mar 18 2016

Publication series

Name2016 50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016

Other

Other50th Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, CISS 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPrinceton
Period3/16/163/18/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

Keywords

  • 5G
  • Application offloading
  • Backhaul
  • Mobile cloud computing
  • Successive convex approximation

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