A Survey on Adaptive Cloudlet Placement Methods for Mobile Applications in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

Evolution and Advancement in technology give computation in our hands via smartphones. That exponentially increases the applications that make our day to day work in an easy and faster manner. But a portable mobile device has limited computing capabilities. To overcome this problem one way is to upload the computer intensive task to the nearest cloud called cloudlet (a group of linked computers). As there are lots of research is going on but a very few attention towards the placement of clouds in such a manner that will decrease the cost and increase the optimization that leads to increase in performance of running application in smartphones. This paper consist combined study of variously proposed cloudlet location algorithm and mobile user assignments to cloudlets while balancing workloads in wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) with their performance measures.