Performability analysis of cloudlet in mobile cloud computing

Information Sciences

Volumn 388-389, Issue , 2017, Pages 99-117

  Raei, Hassan ^a,b   Yazdani, Nasser ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cloudlet; Fixed point iteration method; Mobile cloud computing; Performability analysis; Stochastic reward net

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOBILE DEVICES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLOUDLET; FIXED-POINT ITERATION METHODS; INTER-DEPENDENCIES; PERFORMABILITY; REQUEST REJECTIONS; STOCHASTIC REWARD NETS; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS CONNECTION;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85009509161     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2017.01.030     Document Type: Article

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