A survey of computation offloading strategies for performance improvement of applications running on mobile devices

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-40

  Khan, Minhaj Ahmad ^a  

^a BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Computation offloading; Cyberaging; Mobile cloud computing; Mobile computing; Performance improvement

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; SURVEYS;

APPLICATION PARTITIONING; COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; CONSTRAINED RESOURCES; CYBERAGING; HANDHELD MOBILE DEVICES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; WORK-LOAD DISTRIBUTION;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84937211250     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.05.018     Document Type: Review

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