On networking and computing environments' integration: A novel mobile cloud resources provisioning approach

Mobile/wireless networking and cloud computing are nowadays revolutionizing the ways of communication and computation and the newly founded Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) research area is inspired by the notion of complete networking and computing environments' integration. As a result, efficient MCC resource management frameworks should simultaneously take into consideration both: a) wireless/radio access resources pool aiming at always-best connectivity contexts and b) computing resources pool for data processing/storage aiming at flexible virtualized infrastructure sharing solutions. In this paper, we propose a Mobile Cloud Resources Provisioning (MCRP) scheme, which is flexible enough to adapt to the various general MCC reference use cases being described. The main novelty feature of the employed MCC Service Admission Control algorithm lies in the fact that it jointly handles radio and computing resources rather than confronting the problem as two independent resource management sub-problems. The performance of MCRP scheme is evaluated via simulation results showing that the assumed context-aware service admission control policies can lead to efficient mobile cloud resources provisioning outcomes.