Cloudlets Activation Scheme for Scalable Mobile Edge Computing with Transmission Power Control and Virtual Machine Migration

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 1287-1300

  Rodrigues, Tiago Gama ^a   Suto, Katsuya ^b   Nishiyama, Hiroki ^a   Kato, Nei ^a   Temma, Katsuhiro ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cloudlet; Mobile edge computing; particle swarm optimization; resource management; scalability; transmission power control; virtualization

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EDGE COMPUTING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; JOB ANALYSIS; NETWORK SECURITY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); POWER CONTROL; SCALABILITY; SERVERS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUALIZATION;

CLOUDLET; DELAYS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; MOBILE HANDSETS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TASK ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85044304738     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2018.2818144     Document Type: Article

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