Power-Aware Hybrid Encoding Scheme for Mobile Cloud Services on Open Source Hardware Platforms

Abstract

Cloud computing has been developed in various ways and many services have been migrated to this relatively new paradigm since its advent. One representative example is mobile cloud computing, MCC, in short. With introduction of faster network access and better empowered mobile devices than their predecessors, the integration of cloud computing and mobile devices would be the natural technology evolution path, which leads to the vision of mobile cloud computing. To provide the mobility capability, mobile devices have battery as an energy source and if the battery is discharged no more cloud service is available. The biggest advantage of mobile device which is mobility causes to the biggest disadvantage. Motivated by the importance of conserving energy on mobile devices, in this paper, we introduce an adaptive energy-aware encoding scheme for open source hardware platforms for RDA-based mobile cloud services which we have named in our work. We expect that an open source hardware platform can be a next important mobile device as well as a leader of IoT (Internet of Things). Through experiments we have found that the characteristic of hardware components on a device need to be considered carefully and the result showes that our proposed method is effective in saving energy consumption for providing RDA-based mobile cloud computing.