A stochastic control approach to maximize profit on service provisioning for mobile cloudlet platforms

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 522-534

  Fang, Weiwei ^a   Yao, Xuening ^a   Zhao, Xiaojie ^a   Yin, Jianwei ^b   Xiong, Naixue ^c  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic scheduling; Lyapunov optimization; mobile cloud computing; queue stability; stochastic control

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREEN COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROFITABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; LYAPUNOV OPTIMIZATIONS; QUEUE STABILITY; REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85042171723     PISSN: 21682216     EISSN: 21682232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2016.2606400     Document Type: Article

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