Job Allocation Mechanism for Battery Consumption Minimization of Cyber-Physical-Social Big Data Processing Based on Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

The rapid development of information & communication technology has led to the wide popularity of mobile devices, which have helped to improve business efficiency and enabled simple mobility as small and light devices and convenience of being available anytime, anywhere for cyber-physical-social big data. There are many ongoing studies on mobile cloud computing (MCC) to overcome the limited computing capability and storage capacity and internal battery limitation by taking advantage of the popularity of mobile devices for the processing cyber-physical-social big data. MCC consists of service-oriented architecture, agent-client architecture, and collaborative architecture, with job splitting and allocation as the critical factor. As such, job allocation techniques considering the performance resources of mobile devices have been studied. Note, however, that there is a problem of job reallocation due to continuous battery consumption, since the studies consider only the performance resources of mobile devices at the time of job allocation or take into account the performance resources and remaining battery power only. This paper proposes the job allocation mechanism (JAM) for battery consumption minimization of cyber-physical-social big data processing in MCC, which continuously reflects the battery consumption rate to process jobs with mobile devices only without an external cloud server in a collaborative architecture-based MCC environment. JAM allocates jobs considering the periodic measurement of battery consumption and surplus resource to minimize the problem of job reallocation due to battery rundown of the mobile devices. This paper designs and implements a system for verifying JAM and demonstrated that the job processing speed increased in an MCC environment for cyber-physical-social big data.