Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as an important field in information and communication technologies. Despite the progress of networks and communication technologies, the development of IoT has encountered some challenges mainly with regard to computation
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Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as an important field in information and communication technologies. Despite the progress of networks and communication technologies, the development of IoT has encountered some challenges mainly with regard to computation power, battery lifetime and memory of mobile devices. In order to overcome these challenges, mobile cloud computing has been raised which uses the cloud storage space and computation power to extend the capabilities of mobile devices. In this regard, some of application’s components are selected to be offloaded to the cloud in order to optimize the execution time and energy consumption of application. Since the mobility has an important effect on the acquired condition of the access network and the quality of the connection, the mobility should be considered while selecting components for offloading. Although a number of mobility-aware offloading approaches has been already proposed, these works suffer from the lack of an appropriate mobility-model, ignorance of the fault-tolerance capability and use of only coarse-grain offloading. In order to address these issues, we propose a mobility-aware offloading scheme which uses the user mobility Markov chain and the fault tolerance capability in order to optimize the offloading decision. Evaluation results show that our proposed method significantly outperforms the existing alternatives, reaching respectively up to 75 and 65 percent enhancement in terms of the execution time and the energy consumption.
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