Refactoring android java code for on-demand computation offloading

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 233-247

  Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Huang, Gang ^a,b   Liu, Xuanzhe ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Mei, Hong ^a,b   Yang, Shunxiang ^a,b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Android; Bytecode refactoring; Computation offloading; Energy

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; BYTECODES; COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; ENERGY; EXECUTION TIME; JAVA CODES; LEGACY APPLICATIONS; NETWORK DELAYS; ON-DEMAND COMPUTATIONS; PROGRAM STRUCTURES; REFACTORINGS; REMOTE SERVERS; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; USER REQUIREMENTS;

SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84870439965     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2398857.2384634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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