A lightweight active service migration framework for computational offloading in mobile cloud computing

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 978-995

  Shiraz, Muhammad ^a   Gani, Abdullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Application offloading; Distributed system; Lightweight; Mobile application; Mobile cloud computing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; TURNAROUND TIME;

APPLICATION OFFLOADING; APPLICATION PROFILING; DIFFERENT GRANULARITIES; DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LIGHTWEIGHT; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84901982966     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: 15730484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-013-1076-7     Document Type: Article

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