A method for evaluating the relative performance of local, cloud and combined processing of divisible (i.e. partitionable) data loads is presented. It is shown how to do this in the context of Amdahl's law. A single level (star) network operating under each of three fundamental scheduling policies is used as an example. Applications include mobile computing, cloud computing and signature searching.
@article{arxiv.2107.01735,
title = {Cloud Versus Local Processing in Distributed Networks},
author = {Abdulaziz M. Alqarni and Thomas G. Robertazzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01735},
year = {2021}
}