An Energy-Efficiency Enhanced Mobile Storage Platform In Cloud Environments

In mobile computing environments, storage service is becoming more and more important with the emerging of plenty of data-intensive applications. Although, many mobile storage systems have developed to deal with this situation, few of them take the energy-efficiency into consideration. In this paper, we presented an energy-efficient mobile storage platform, which is based on our previously developed Dependable Cloud based Storage Platform for Mobile Computing (DCSP-MC). The key improvement of this mobile storage platform is that it takes the energy consumption of storage nodes into consideration. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed platform, and the results indicate that it can significantly improve the energy efficiency of the underlying storage nodes, as well as providing desirable quality of service for mobile end-users.