An adaptive cloudlet placement method for mobile applications over GPS big data

Mobile cloud computing provides powerful computing and storage capacity on managing GPS big data by offloading vast workloads to remote clouds. For the mobile applications with urgent computing or communication deadline, it is necessary to reduce the workload transmission latency between mobile devices and clouds. This can be technically achieved by expanding mobile cloudlets that are moving co-located with Access Points (APs). However, it is not-trivial to place such movable cloudlets efficiently to enhance the cloud service for dynamic context-aware mobile applications. In view of this challenge, an adaptive cloudlet placement method for mobile applications over GPS big data is proposed in this paper. Specifically, the gathering regions of the mobile devices are identified based on position clustering, and the cloudlet destination locations are confirmed accordingly. Besides, the traces between the origin and destination locations of these mobile cloudlets are also achieved. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is both effective and efficient.