A Study of Load-Balancing Solutions of Mobile Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Mobile Applications

Abstract

Mobile applications are nowadays one of the most important parts in every person's life. Today's smartphones are more capable of operating different type of applications. Mobile devices can create an interface between people and service providers. But due to limited computation power, storage, and battery capacity, it is not possible to computing all process in mobile devices. Thus, a cloud-based solution using mobile devices is an effective solution to overcome smartphones' constraints and gets access through anywhere for different kinds of facilities and services by offloading computation activities from mobile devices. These outputs of that computation are returned back to mobile devices. However, cloud resources are also limited. In order to use the limited cloud resources, load-balancing solutions are recommended for improving Hybrid cloud computing architectures. In this paper, we address why hybrid cloud computing is important in mobile applications and also demonstrate why load balancing is required in hybrid cloud computing architectures. We demonstrate and evaluate load-balancing performances using the ns-3 network simulation tool.