Cost minimization for code offloading with cellular traffic aggregation

Code offloading has been proposed to improve the performance and energy-efficiency of mobile devices by sending heavy computation tasks to resourceful cloud, instead of executing all tasks on local mobile devices. Unfortunately, current code offloading techniques are not efficient enough because of high communication cost. In this paper, we propose a novel code offloading strategy with cellular traffic aggregation that aggregates offloaded codes to several mobile devices before sending them to cloud, which can significantly reduce tail energy effect. With the objective of minimizing the total cost of computation and communication, we propose an optimization framework by jointly considering code partition and traffic aggregation. Due to the hardness of this problem, we design an efficient heuristic algorithm and evaluate its performance via extensive simulations. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms existing schemes.