Cloud path selection using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process for offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) gains a significant attention in research domain due to the enhancement of capability and popularity of mobile devices in recent years. Due to the development of a variety of clouds which provides similar services to mobile devices, it becomes quite difficult to choose an optimum cloud for offloading the computationally intensive applications. The aim of selecting the cloud path is to select an optimum cloud from a set of clouds which provides the same cloud services. The selection of optimum cloud saves the execution time and availability of resources during the migration of computational tasks. For making final decision about selection of cloud path, many criteria need to be considered such as cost, speed, capacity, privacy, availability. In this paper, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) based multiple criteria decision making approach is proposed which allows the user to select an optimal choice from a set of available choices. This paper uses FAHP technique, a fuzzy extension of Analytic hierarchy Process (AHP) to compare a set of clouds.