TY - JOUR
T1 - Offloading Computations to Mobile Devices and Cloudlets via an Upgraded NFC Communication Protocol
AU - Chatzopoulos, Dimitris
AU - Fernandez, C. Bermejo
AU - Kosta, S.
AU - Hui, Pan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The increasing complexity of smartphone applications and services necessitate high battery consumption, but the growth of smartphones' battery capacity is not keeping pace with these increasing power demands. To overcome this problem, researchers gave birth to the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) research area. In this paper, we advance on previous ideas, proposing and implementing a Near Field Communication (NFC)-based computation offloading framework. This research is motivated by the advantages of NFC's short distance communication, its better security, and its low battery consumption characteristics. We design a new NFC communication protocol that overcomes the limitations of the default NFC protocol; removing the need for constant user interaction, the one-way communication restraint, and the limit on low data size transfer. We present experimental results of the energy consumption and the time duration of computationally and data intensive representative applications: (i) RSA key generation and encryption, (ii) gaming/puzzles, (iii) face detection, (iv) media download from the Internet, and (v) data transferring between the mobile and the cloudlet. Finally, we show that devices that offload application parts considerably reduce their energy consumption due to the low-power NFC interface and the benefits of offloading.
AB - The increasing complexity of smartphone applications and services necessitate high battery consumption, but the growth of smartphones' battery capacity is not keeping pace with these increasing power demands. To overcome this problem, researchers gave birth to the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) research area. In this paper, we advance on previous ideas, proposing and implementing a Near Field Communication (NFC)-based computation offloading framework. This research is motivated by the advantages of NFC's short distance communication, its better security, and its low battery consumption characteristics. We design a new NFC communication protocol that overcomes the limitations of the default NFC protocol; removing the need for constant user interaction, the one-way communication restraint, and the limit on low data size transfer. We present experimental results of the energy consumption and the time duration of computationally and data intensive representative applications: (i) RSA key generation and encryption, (ii) gaming/puzzles, (iii) face detection, (iv) media download from the Internet, and (v) data transferring between the mobile and the cloudlet. Finally, we show that devices that offload application parts considerably reduce their energy consumption due to the low-power NFC interface and the benefits of offloading.
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Wireless fidelity
KW - Energy consumption
KW - Bluetooth
KW - Protocols
KW - Batteries
KW - Security
KW - Computation Offloading
KW - Near Field Communications
KW - Mobile Cloud Computing
KW - Cloudlets
KW - Mobile Computing
KW - cloudlets
KW - mobile cloud computing
KW - mobile computing
KW - Computation offloading
KW - near field communications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079629988&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TMC.2019.2899093
DO - 10.1109/TMC.2019.2899093
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1536-1233
VL - 19
SP - 640
EP - 653
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IS - 3
M1 - 8640093
ER -