HMCC: A Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing Framework Exploiting Heterogeneous Resources

Hybrid Mobile Cloud Computing (HMCC) refers to a Mobile Computation Outsourcing (MCO) model that exploits hybrid granular cloud-based resources composed of coarse-, medium-, and fine-grained resources interconnected by wireless and wired networks to augment mobile devices. Leveraging single type of granules for augmentation (i.e., vertically heterogeneous) has its own deficiencies of low proximity or/and scalability that leads to communication or/and computation latency. Therefore, responsiveness and energy efficiency of cloud-connected Compute-intensive Mobile Applications (CiMA) are degraded. In this paper, we aim to enhance energy-time efficiency of executing CiMA using HMCC. Performance evaluation results show significant gains, 80%-96% round-trip time and 83%-96% energy saving when executing CiMA using HMCC.