DTM: A New Data Transmission Method in Mobile Cloud Computing

Recent years, as mobile devices are getting more and more popular, Apps on mobile devices accessing to multiple cloud services through mobile Internet is continuously increasing. However, compared to the traditional PC, mobile devices have a limitation in the ability of storage, the ability of computation, battery capacity and so on, which makes it difficult to handle complicated tasks under mobile cloud computing environment. Among these tasks, large volume data transmission tasks of Apps accessing to cloud services are energy intensive and bring much pressure on mobile devices battery. To address this problem, this paper propose a mobile agent to optimize large volume data transmission for mobile clients in mobile cloud computing, which helps to reduce energy consumption and decrease waiting time. We implement the agent optimization method and present some experiments on Android platform. The experimental results indicate that this method does significantly improve energy efficiency and performance of large volume data transmission under mobile cloud computing.