Game-theoretic incentive model for improving mobile code offloading adaptability

Abstract

Due to the limited computational capabilities of the mobile device they usually need to delegate resource intensive tasks to the cloud. Code offloading is one of the techniques used for such purposes. In Code offloading, the mobile application is partitioned to identify resource intensive tasks which are then transferred to the server for remote processing. Various techniques have been in use for performing code offloading but none of them is economically viable due to which this model is not frequently used in the industry. In this paper, we tried to address the issues which make code offloading expensive and came up with code offloading model that can make the process economically viable. We developed a game theoretic model that provides incentive to mobile users to open their devices for offloading. Simulations have been done to validate the mathematical model and a prototype has also been developed to see how the framework behaves in the real world scenario.