SAMI: Service-Based Arbitrated Multi-Tier Infrastructure for Mobile Cloud Computing

TL;DR

SAMI is a multi-tier infrastructure model for Mobile Cloud Computing that addresses latency and trust issues by leveraging cloud, MNOs, and authorized dealers, enabling efficient service classification and resource allocation.

Contribution

The paper introduces SAMI, a novel multi-tier architecture using SOA and arbitrator layers to improve MCC by integrating multiple cloud sources and enhancing service management.

Findings

Addresses latency and trust issues in MCC

Enables platform-neutral mobile application deployment

Utilizes multi-source cloud infrastructure

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the state-ofthe- art mobile computing technology aims to alleviate resource poverty of mobile devices. Recently, several approaches and techniques have been proposed to augment mobile devices by leveraging cloud computing. However, long-WAN latency and trust are still two major issues in MCC that hinder its vision. In this paper, we analyze MCC and discuss its issues. We leverage Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to propose an arbitrated multi-tier infrastructure model named SAMI for MCC. Our architecture consists of three major layers, namely SOA, arbitrator, and infrastructure. The main strength of this architecture is in its multi-tier infrastructure layer which leverages infrastructures from three main sources of Clouds, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and MNOs' authorized dealers. On top of the infrastructure layer, an arbitrator layer is designed to classify Services and allocate them the suitable resources based on several metrics such as resource requirement, latency and security. Utilizing SAMI facilitate development and deployment of service-based platform-neutral mobile applications.