Cyber Foraging and Offloading Framework for Internet of Things

Overview & Synopsis

Computation offloading or cyber foraging is a key capability required to achieve effective resource utilization in mobile cloud computing. It enables the dynamic offloading of computations to either neighboring mobile nodes or remote cloud-based servers, retrieve results from the offloaded computations, and thereafter continue execution of the mobile business logic. A number of computational mobility solutions have emerged recently for mobile cloud computing involving smartphones and tablets. However, these solutions incur limitations in the context of Internet of Things (IoT) due to the significant heterogeneity illustrated by the range of objects involved in IoT and the fact that existing solutions tend to be tightly coupled to their underlying frameworks, which makes it hard to seamlessly adapt these solutions to the IoT scenarios. To address these concerns, this paper makes three contributions. First, it presents a novel modular and highly configurable framework for providing seamless computational mobility in the IoT realm. Second, it provides implementation details for key capabilities of this framework. Third, it provides qualitative evaluation of the framework's capabilities.