A Thin-Thick Client Collaboration for Optimizing Task Scheduling in Mobile Cloud Computing

Although the convergence of the two emerging trends: cloud computing and mobile computing can somehow compensate the shortage of hardware capability in mobile devices by offloading requested work to the cloud, most of the research studies are not yet efficient in making cloud usage experience as painless as possible, especially when access to cloud becomes expensive. We propose in this paper an architecture based on a collaboration of thin-thick clients and clouds that focuses on providing an effective task scheduling which can boost up the processing time in the mobile cloud platform while considering the network bandwidth and cost for cloud service usage. Experimental results show the significantly improved efficiency of the task scheduling in bringing desired processing time corresponding to the money paid by customers.