Phone2Cloud: Exploiting computation offloading for energy saving on smartphones in mobile cloud computing

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-111

  Xia, Feng ^a   Ding, Fangwei ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Kong, Xiangjie ^a   Yang, Laurence T ^b   Ma, Jianhua ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computation offloading; Energy efficiency; Execution time; Mobile cloud computing; Smartphone

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; EXECUTION TIME; SAVE ENERGY;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84897998269     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-013-9458-1     Document Type: Article

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