Mahenge, Michael P. J.Li, ChunlinSanga, Camilius A.2023-03-212023-03-212019http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5060Journal articleThe overwhelming growth of resource-intensive and latency-sensitive applications trigger challenges in legacy systems of mobile cloud computing (MCC) architecture. Such challenges include congestion in the backhaul link, high latency, inefficient bandwidth usage, insufficient performance, and quality of service (QoS) metrics. The objective of this study was to find out the cost-efficient design that maximizes resource utilization at the edge of the mobile network which in return minimizes the task processing costs. Thus, this study proposes a cooperative mobile edge computing (coopMEC) to address the aforementioned challenges in MCC architecture. Also, in the proposed approach, resource- intensive jobs can be unloaded from users’ equipment to MEC layer which is potential for enhancing performance in resource-constrained mobile devices. The simulation results demonstrate the potential gain from the proposed approach in terms of reducing response delay and resource consumption. This, in turn, improves performance, QoS, and guarantees cost-effectiveness in meeting users’ demands.enBig-data-as-a-ServiceCloud computingContent deliveryMobile-edge computingQuality of serviceResource-constraintArticle