Cooperation based Instantly Decodable Network Coding for mobile clouds

Cloud computing Concept has been recognized as the next generation computing infrastructure. In addition, the explosive expansion of mobile devices usage around all over the world leads to more requirements in terms of resources, environment, and security. Therefore, mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm emerges, and it is considered as the future technology for mobile services and applications. Furthermore, Network Coding (NC) is a novel technique that aims to improve performance and throughput in wireless communication. Our work's concern is to build a delay and throughput optimized network coding scheme with mobile cooperation for broadcast based Mobile clouds applications. Hence, after a deep literature study, we proposed a scheme that introduces the use of cooperation with Instantly Decodable Network Coding. In order to evaluate our proposition, we carried out simulation experiments to test it and compare it with relevant existing solutions. Finally, the results are very encouraging and the proposed scheme gives a satisfactory delay compared to the existing solutions. © 2015 IEEE.