A distributed cloud architecture for mobile multimedia services

Author

Felemban, Muhamad ; Basalamah, Saleh ; Ghafoor, Abdul

Volume

27

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

September-October 2013

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

27

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm for supporting a broad range of multimedia services. MCC alleviates the burden of storage and computation on mobile devices. In this article, we describe design requirements and an architecture for MCC. The novelty in this architecture is an integrated cloudlet and base station subsystem that can meet application-level quality of service requirements and allow mobile resource provisioning close to the user. We present a layered architecture for MCC that elucidates the required functions and protocols. We also propose a connection handoff mechanism among cloudlets and discuss related resource management challenges for MCC.

Keywords

cloud computing; mobile computing; multimedia systems; quality of service; resource allocation; MCC design requirements; MCC layered architecture; base station subsystem; connection handoff mechanism; distributed cloud architecture; integrated cloudlet subsystem; mobile cloud computing; mobile devices; mobile multimedia services; mobile resource provisioning; quality of service requirements; resource management; Base stations; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Distributed processing; Mobile communication; Multimedia communication; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2013.6616111

Filename

6616111