A Scheduling Scheme for Throughput Optimization in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm includes all the emerging technological advances, mechanisms and schemes for the efficient resource offloading and the energy-efficient provision of services to mobile users. In addition, the mobile nodes will act as flexible networking points in emerging mobile networking architectures, where several challenges have to be addressed, like the high energy consumption and the data packets transmission failure, under a Mobile Peer-to-Peer (MP2P) approach. Towards addressing such challenges, several factors that contribute to the increased consumption of the energy, have to be investigated, as well as issues related with the loss of data during the provision of services. In this framework, a Traffic-based S-MAC scheme is proposed in this chapter, towards increasing the data exchange and minimize the energy consumption, between mobile nodes operating under an Ad-Hoc approach. The performance of the proposed scheduling scheme was thoroughly evaluated, through a number of simulation experiments.