Joint cloud and wireless networks operations in mobile cloud computing environments with telecom operator cloud

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4020-4033

  Yin, Zhiyuan ^a   Yu, F Richard ^a   Bu, Shengrong ^b   Han, Zhu ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile cloud computing; small cells; telecom operator cloud

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER GAMES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BACKWARD INDUCTION METHODS; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; REPLICATOR DYNAMICS; SMALL CELLS; TELECOM OPERATORS;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84937057637     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2416177     Document Type: Article

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