On Energy-Efficient Offloading in Mobile Cloud for Real-Time Video Applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 170-181

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Fu, Di ^a   Liu, Jiangchuan ^a,b   Ngai, Edith Cheuk Han ^c   Zhu, Wenwu ^d  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; mobile cloud; offloading; video

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE PHONES; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTATION INTENSIVES; DYNAMIC WIRELESS NETWORKS; MOBILE CLOUD APPLICATIONS; MOBILE CLOUDS; OFFLOADING; OFFLOADING COMPUTATIONS; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; VIDEO;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85009723951     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2539690     Document Type: Article

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