Integrated Communication and Computation Resource Management for Mobile Cloud Computing

通过智能移动的设备和基于云的计算技术的最新进展，移动的云计算是一种新兴技术，预计在不久的将来将无处不在，支持广泛的应用，如工业生产、教育、电子商务、移动的医疗保健和环境监测。未来的消费者除了通过互联网获取信息外，还将要求随时随地访问高速计算服务。移动的云计算的一个主要区别特征是通信和计算之间的紧密耦合，在新兴的信息计算服务中，例如可穿戴健康监测和增强现实。因此，它的兴起将迎来一个新的普遍集成通信计算范式，智能移动的设备自然地充当人机界面和不受约束的感官输入，强大的云服务器提供信息处理引擎，先进的有线和无线通信网络支持它们之间的双向连接。这个复杂系统的正确操作对于无缝和无处不在的信息计算服务至关重要。然而，现有的知识和研究在这一新兴的范式是稀缺的，有许多具有挑战性的开放问题和令人兴奋的创新机会。 在拟议的研究计划中，我们的目标，从长远来看，开发一种新的框架，统一通信和计算在移动的云计算，最终导致一个集成的系统，提供无处不在的信息计算服务，自由漫游的移动的设备无缝和有效的。我们将探讨在新的综合通信计算范例中优化系统设计和资源管理的基本原理和工程技术。在短期内，我们将专注于三个相互连接的基本构建模块：（1）通过不稳定的无线链路的动态计算作业迁移，（2）多资源联合通信计算公平调度，（3）多代理合作联合通信和计算。所提出的研究将大大有助于在新兴的信息计算环境中建立基础理论和实际的设计策略。我们的研究成果有望激发新的通信架构，分布式计算系统和信息计算应用。预计它们将对加拿大技术创新的长期竞争力产生持续影响。

Enabled by recent advances in smart mobile devices and cloud-based computing techniques, mobile cloud computing is an emerging technology expected to be ubiquitous in the near future, supporting a wide range of applications such as industrial production, education, e-commerce, mobile healthcare, and environmental monitoring. Future consumers will demand anytime, anywhere access to high-speed computation services, in addition to their conventional access to information through the Internet. A main distinguishing characteristic of mobile cloud computing is the tight coupling between communication and computation, in emerging Info-Computation services such as wearable health monitoring and augmented reality. Therefore, its rise will usher in a new pervasive integrated communication-computation paradigm, where smart mobile devices naturally serve as human interface and untethered sensory inputs, powerful cloud servers provide the engine for information processing, and an advanced wired and wireless communication network supports the bi-directional connection between them. The proper operation of this complex system is essential to seamless and ubiquitous Info-Computation services. However, existing knowledge and research in this emerging paradigm are scarce, and there are many challenging open problems and exciting opportunities for innovation. In the proposed research program, we aim, in the long term, to develop a novel framework to unify communication and computation in mobile cloud computing, ultimately leading to an integrated system that provides ubiquitous Info-Computation services to freely roaming mobile devices seamlessly and efficiently. We will investigate into fundamental principles and engineering techniques for optimal system design and resource management in the new integrated communication-computation paradigm. In the shorter-term, we will focus on three inter-connected essential building blocks: (1) dynamic computation job migration through instable wireless links, (2) multi-resource joint communication-computation fair scheduling, and (3) multi-agent cooperative joint communication and computation. The proposed research will contribute substantially toward establishing fundamental theories and practical design policies in the emerging Info-Computation environment. Our research outcomes are expected to motivate novel communication architectures, distributed computing systems, and Info-Computation applications. They are expected to have sustained impact in contributing toward the long-term competitiveness of Canada’s technological innovation.