Adaptive Energy-Efficient QoS-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for TCP/IP Mobile Cloud

The expected pervasive use of mobile cloud computing and the growing number of Internet data centers have brought forth many concerns, such as, energy costs and energy saving management of both data centers and mobile connections. Therefore, the need for adaptive and distributed resource allocation schedulers for minimizing the communication-plus-computing energy consumption has become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose and test an efficient dynamic resource provisioning scheduler that jointly minimizes computation and communication energy consumption, while guaranteeing user Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. We evaluate the performance of the proposed dynamic resource provisioning algorithm with respect to the execution time, goodput and bandwidth usage and compare the performance of the proposed scheduler against the exiting approaches. The attained experimental results show that the proposed dynamic resource provisioning algorithm achieves much higher energy-saving than the traditional schemes.