Operating system

Cloud computing security

Cloud testing

Computer science

Cloud computing

Economics

Profit (economics)

Utility computing

Distributed computing

Edge computing

Microeconomics

Mobile edge computing

Profit maximization

Mobile cloud computing

Computer network

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Both the edge and the cloud can provide computing services for mobile devices to enhance their performance. The edge can reduce the conveying delay by providing local computing services while the cloud can support enormous computing requirements. Their cooperation can improve the utilization of computing resources and ensure the QoS, and thus is critical to edge-cloud computing business models. This paper proposes an efficient framework for mobile edge-cloud computing networks, which enables the edge and the cloud to share their computing resources in the form of wholesale and buyback. To optimize the computing resource sharing process, we formulate the computing resource management problems for the edge servers to manage their wholesale and buyback scheme and the cloud to determine the wholesale price and its local computing resources. Then, we solve these problems from two perspectives: i) social welfare maximization and ii) profit maximization for the edge and the cloud. For i), we have proved the concavit...

Efficient Computing Resource Sharing for Mobile Edge-Cloud Computing Networks