Geo-Cloudlet: Time and Power Efficient Geospatial Query Resolution using Cloudlet

Geospatial data analysis is an emerging area of research today due to the potential to enable varied location-aware services. The existing centralized cloud-based analysis becomes time and computing-intensive for huge amount of geospatial data processing. This paper addresses the challenge of time and power-efficiency in QoS-aware geospatial query resolution. We propose a cloudlet based hierarchical paradigm, namely Geo-Cloudlet, where the cloudlets contain the geospatial data of the districts. The state and national level geospatial data are stored inside the state cloud and country cloud respectively. The query resolution is performed by either the cloudlet or by the state cloud or country cloud depending upon the geographical region related to the query. The experimental analysis illustrates that the proposed architecture Geo-Cloudlet reduces the latency up to 61.3% and power consumption up to 61.1% over the use of only remote cloud servers for geospatial query resolution.