Technical considerations towards mobile user QoE enhancement via Cloud interaction

Abstract

Abstract-This paper discusses technical considerations of a Cloud infrastructure which interacts with mobile devices in order to migrate part of the computational overhead from the mobile device to the Cloud. The aim of the interaction between the mobile device and the Cloud is the enhancement of parameters that affect the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the mobile enduser through the offloading of computational aspects of demanding applications. This paper shows that mobile user's QoE can be potentially enhanced by offloading computational tasks to the Cloud which incorporates a predictive context-aware mechanism to schedule delivery of content to the mobile end-user using a low-cost interaction model between the Cloud and the mobile user. With respect to the proposed enhancements, both the technical considerations of the cloud infrastructure are examined, as well as the interaction between the mobile device and the Cloud.

MWQoE: A user-centered context-aware model for evaluating the Mobile Web Quality of Experience

“…This article addresses the challenge of measuring MWQoE via BetterX, an end-to-end mobile-to-cloud system (MCS), which has been proposed as an architecture in [4] and has now been partially developed for the purposes of this work. BetterX has been designed primarily as a system of continuous MWQoE evaluation, where the BetterX Android client delivers context data to the BetterX Cloud implementation for processing, with the calculated MWQoE metric being sent back into the mobile device to possibly trigger actions, i.e.…”