Accessing remote cloud services usually involves high network latencies. To deal with this issue, several models of local cloudlets have been proposed, but most of which are based on powerful desktop machines running continuously and constantly to provide services to nearby users. In this paper, we propose a more ubiquitous solution based on less powerful but considerably more accessible machines, namely mobile smartphones. We envision a network of cloudlets distributed within a geographic area, connected to a root server that keeps track of their online presence and resource availability. Our framework is especially suitable for environments where cloud clients are interested in network and software services, in information and data generated and updated by applications or cached from accesses to remote cloud centers. We use the CloudSim simulator to evaluate the performance of the proposed solution and compare it with a peer solutions found in the literature.

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This work proposes a replication scheme that is implemented on top of a previously proposed system for MANETs that cache submitted queries in special nodes, called query directories, and uses them to locate the data (responses) that are stored in the nodes that first request them, called caching nodes. The system, which was named distributed cache invalidation method (DCIM), includes client‐based mechanisms for keeping the cached data consistent with the data source. In this work, we extend DCIM to handle cache replicas inside the MANET. For this purpose, we utilize a push‐based approach within the MANET to propagate the server updates to replicas inside the network. The result is a hybrid approach that utilizes the benefits of pull approaches for client server communication and those of push approaches inside the network between the replicas. The approach is analyzed analytically, and the appropriate number of replicas is obtained, where it was concluded that full replication of the indices of data items at the query directory and two‐partial replication of the data items themselves makes most sense. Simulation results based on ns2 demonstrate the ability of the added replication scheme to lower delays and improve hit ration at the cost of mild increases in overhead traffic. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.