An effective offloading middleware for pervasive services on mobile devices

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 362-385

  Ou, Shumao ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Middleware; Mobile devices; Offloading; Partitioning; Pervasive services; Resource constraint

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; MIDDLEWARE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

OFFLOADING; RESOURCE CONSTRAINED; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 34250219933     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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