Mobile computation offloading for real-time multi-user applications

作为个人计算平台，移动无线设备正继续变得更加普及。然而，**这些设备由于其较小的物理尺寸而固有地受到资源限制。移动计算卸载(MCO)领域的新技术使增强移动设备的计算能力**成为可能，通过将部分或全部计算负载从移动设备卸载到资源丰富的云服务器**来支持新兴的计算密集型应用程序。**世纪通信公司是一家电信制造商和解决方案提供商。该公司通过MCO开发了自己的移动云计算(MCC)和移动边缘计算(MEC)**解决方案，其**目前的产品主要服务于独立移动用户。与此同时，该公司面临着**对支持移动设备中的多用户应用程序(MUA)的日益增长的**需求。**该公司面临的一个挑战问题是支持计算密集型和时间敏感型MUA，这**将计算分流限制在移动设备附近的边缘服务器上。由于多用户的性质，应该共同考虑所有用户的**分流服务质量，这可能非常复杂。任何用户的**移动都会影响整个应用的服务质量。在多用户环境中，随着用户移动**以保持服务邻近性的交换边缘服务器是另一个具有挑战性的问题。**本项目的目标是设计有效支持移动无线用户实时MUA的方案和协议**。这一成果将成为关键的使能技术，补充**公司在移动网络解决方案方面的现有优势。将加拿大**电信业定位在移动服务技术发展的前沿，这对它也将是重要的。

Mobile wireless devices are continuing to become more pervasive as personal computing platforms. However,**these devices are inherently resource-limited due to their small physical size. New technology in mobile**computation offloading (MCO) has made it possible to augment the computation capability of mobile devices**for supporting emerging computation-intensive applications by offloading part or all the computation loads**from mobile devices to resourceful cloud servers.**Acentury Inc. is a telecommunication manufacturer and solution provider. The company has developed its own**solutions of mobile cloud computing (MCC) and mobile edge computing (MEC) through MCO, and their**current products mainly serve independent mobile users. Meanwhile, the company is facing increasing**demands for supporting multi-user applications (MUAs) in mobile devices.**One challenging issue for the company is to support computation-intensive and time-sensitive MUAs, which**limit computation offloading to only edge servers near the mobile devices. Due to the multi-user nature, the**offloading service quality to all the users should be jointly considered, which can be very complicated. The**movement of any users can affect service quality of the entire application. Switched edge servers as users move**around to keep maintaining service proximity is another challenging issue in the multi-user environment.**The objective of this project is to design schemes and protocols needed to effectively support real-time MUAs**for mobile wireless users. The outcome will become critical enabling technologies that complement the**company's existing strength in mobile networking solutions. It will also be important to the Canadian**telecommunication industry by positioning it in the forefront of mobile service technology development.