A review of computation offloading for mobile cloud computing based on fuzzy set theory

Abstract

Smart Mobile Devices (SMD) refers to one of the components present on the Internet of things (IoT), which can support many applications. The rapid consumption of data traffic of SMDs' users from an intensive application has lead in emerging Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). However, this has caused several issues such as reliability, security, trust, and privacy. Recently, there are many existing methods proposed to solve the issues mentioned above by various authors. Thus, it is difficult to distinguish the various methods in terms of how it manages to perform the offloading task from SMD to MCC. This paper aims to provide a comprising review of the existing methods that relate to offloading decisions. Based on the comprehensive review of the related papers, this study focuses on a technique that utilised fuzzy set theory in the offloading computation. Besides, this paper highlights several challenges and issues which occur while implementing a fuzzy-based decision method in offloading computation. Next, this paper proposes an improved offloading computation framework based on offloading decisions using a fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). The comprehensive review of the existing techniques, the systematic synthesis of challenges and issue as well as the new proposed framework are the significant contribution of this paper.