Offloading to neighbouring nodes in smart camera network

Mobile Cloud Computing refers to offloading computationally intensive algorithms from a mobile device to a cloud in order to save resources (time and energy) in the mobile device. But when the connection to the cloud is non-existent or limited, as in battle-space scenarios, exploiting neighbouring devices could be an alternative. In this paper we have developed a framework to offload computationally intensive algorithms to neighbours in order to minimise the algorithm completion time. We propose resource allocation algorithms to maximize the performance of these systems in real-time computer vision applications (drop less targets). Results show significant performance improvement at the cost of using some extra energy resource. Finally we define a new performance metric which also incorporates the energy consumed and is used to compare the offloading algorithms.