RETRACTED ARTICLE: Simulator considering modeling and performance evaluation for high-performance computing of collaborative-based mobile cloud infrastructure

In recent years, as IT technology has progressed, mobile devices have been created that enable various manual tasks to be automated and portable. A variety of mobile devices has computing, storage, and Internet capabilities and can handle many tasks. When miniaturized mobile devices perform tasks that require a large amount of computing resources due to limited computing and storage, there is a delay in operation and a non-operation state. Therefore, collaborative-based mobile cloud infrastructure (MCI) research is being conducted to provide computing services composed of mobile devices. Computation off-loading studies have been conducted for MCI’s high-performance computing, but it is difficult to build various mobile infrastructures and verify algorithm performance. In addition, performance verification is performed in a predetermined MCI environment or is carried out through small-scale test equipment. This causes waste of time, cost, and manpower for constructing the environment. Various studies have been conducted for this purpose, but there is a difficulty in performance verification and analysis since only the results are displayed or outputted in text form. In this paper, we propose a mobile cloud infrastructure simulator (MCIS) for computing off-loading, resource management, mobile deployment, and mobile information for MCI. MCIS enables user tasks, resource allocation methods, and various mobile device performance settings. In addition, visualization of the operating state makes it easy to analyze the performance of the user, and it is possible to grasp the problems that occur during operation.