P. Bellavista, L. Foschini, Riccardo Venanzi, G. Carella
{"title":"Extensible Orchestration of Elastic IP Multimedia Subsystem as a Service Using Open Baton","authors":"P. Bellavista, L. Foschini, Riccardo Venanzi, G. Carella","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.31","url":null,"abstract":"Many recent projects and research activities in the telco sector are adopting the Cloud Computer paradigm consolidating their infrastructures towards converged and all-IP next generation networks providing typical telco services within LTE (and soon 5G) and also fixed network environments, e.g., often still adopting IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture solutions. In this perspective, cloud computing can significantly lower investment risks by implementing telco services with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on top of a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Infrastructure. Within this general context, this paper presents the implementation and integration work accomplished within the large EU FP7 Mobile Cloud Networking project (MCN, 2013-2016) to achieve cost-effective elasticity of IMS-based multimedia applications. The paper shows how it has been designed and implemented an elastic IMS-compliant solution by exploiting the widespread Asterisk server as media gateway. Quality monitoring and scale in/out triggering are obtained through the interaction between the MCN Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) and OpenBaton, i.e., a novel open-source NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) integrated in MCN and fully compliant with the ETSI NFV Management and Orchestration (MANO) specifications. The collected performance results of the proposed solution, demonstrates the fully feasibility of the approach adopted and explained in this paper.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128555415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cowbird: A Flexible Cloud-Based Framework for Combining Smartphone Sensors and IoT","authors":"R. Das, N. V. Bozdog, H. Bal","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.14","url":null,"abstract":"Combining sensors from smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) (e.g., light, sound, UV radiation) enables a new kind of context aware applications in areas like smart cities or smart buildings. Such applications would require continuous evaluation of frequently changing data (smartphone sensors and IoT sensors), and continuous polling of IoT sensor data to the phone. Offloading both the evaluation and the polling of IoT sensor data to the cloud would improve energy efficiency and data transfer costs for the phone. To this end, we built Cowbird, an energy efficient framework to help developers easily build applications that evaluate sensor data both on the phone and in the cloud. To show that Cowbird is flexible and easy to use, we built a prototype app called \"Quiet Route\" that helps the user to avoid walking through noisy areas. We also compare the performance of Cowbird and the existing Cuckoo framework in terms of energy efficiency, data transfer cost and CPU load and show that Cowbird performs much better in the best case and equally good in the worst case.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127421219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cloudlet-Assisted Heuristic Offloading for Mobile Interactive Applications","authors":"G. Shu, Xiaojie Zheng, Hua Xu, Jing Li","doi":"10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MobileCloud.2017.11","url":null,"abstract":"Offloading the computation-intensive task of mobileinteractive applications into cloudlets has become a popularway to reduce the response time in mobile cloud computingarea. In response to the rapid change of mobile environment, researchers have proposed online offloading decisions for variousapplications. However, the pruning method they used wouldperform poorly for the non-linear topology of applications. Inthis paper, we propose a heuristic to search out the near-optimaloffloading scheme for the non-linear topology under the real-timeconstraint. In order to reduce the searching space, wefirst leverage Partial Stochastic Path (PSP) analysis to randomlydivide the topological graph into a set of linear paths. Thenfor each linear path, One-climb Policy is applied to obtainthe optimal offloading decision as there is at most one-timeoffloading to the cloudlet if ever. In addition, among the multiplerandom divisions, the one with the most superior performance isselected as the final division. Lastly, we can get the approximateoptimal solution with the minimum completion time in real-time. Simulation results illustrate that our heuristic exhibits anexcellent performance for non-linear topology and outperformsthe state-of-the-art approaches.","PeriodicalId":106143,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127427508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}