Energy Cost Models of Smartphones for Task Offloading to the Cloud

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 384-398

  Altamimi, Majid ^a   Abdrabou, Atef ^b   Naik, Kshirasagar ^c   Nayak, Amiya ^d  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3G Energy; 4G Energy; Cloud Computing; Energy Estimation; Energy Saving; Mobile Computing; Offloading Decision; Smartphones; WLAN Energy

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; POWER MANAGEMENT; SMARTPHONES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

3G ENERGY; 4G ENERGY; ENERGY ESTIMATION; OFFLOADING DECISION; WLAN ENERGY;

COST ESTIMATING;

EID: 84941064345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21686750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TETC.2014.2387752     Document Type: Article

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