Towards mobile cloud applications: Offloading resource-intensive tasks to hybrid clouds

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 344-367

  Flores, Huber ^a   Srirama, Satish Narayana ^a   Paniagua, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Computing; Hybrid cloud; Middleware; Mobile cloud services; Mobile computing; Mobile networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881159867     PISSN: 17427371     EISSN: 1742738X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17427371211283029     Document Type: Article

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