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BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications

Chinenyeze, Samuel J.; Liu, Xiaodong; Al-Dubai, Ahmed

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Samuel J. Chinenyeze



Abstract

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods have been developed to offload resource intensive tasks from mobile devices to the cloud. Although these schemes address similar questions within the same domain of mobile cloud application (MCA) optimisation, evaluation is tailored to the scheme and also solely mobile focused, thus making it difficult to clearly compare with other existing counterparts. In this work, we first analyse the existing/commonly adopted evaluation technique, then with the aim to fill the above gap, we propose the behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation approach, which adopts the behaviour-driven concept for evaluating MCA performance and energy usage—ie, green metrics. To automate the evaluation process, we also present and evaluate the effectiveness of a resultant application program interface and tool driven by the behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation approach. The application program interface is based on Android and has been validated with Elastic Compute Cloud instance. Experiments show that Beftigre is capable of providing a more distinctive, comparable, and reliable green test results for MCAs.

Citation

Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017). BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 22, 2016
Online Publication Date Jan 28, 2017
Publication Date Feb 23, 2017
Deposit Date Apr 4, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 16, 2018
Journal Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
Electronic ISSN 2047-7481
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 29
Issue 2
Pages e1848
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848
Keywords Behaviour-driven evaluation; green metrics evaluation; green mobile cloud;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/825089
Contract Date Nov 14, 2017

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chinenyeze SJ, Liu X, Al-Dubai A. BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. J Softw Evol Proc. 2017;29:e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving


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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chinenyeze SJ, Liu X, Al-Dubai A. BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. J Softw Evol Proc. 2017;29:e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving









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