Energy and Delay Tradeoff for Application Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 858-867

  Wang, Xiumin ^a,b   Wang, Jin ^c   Wang, Xin ^d   Chen, Xiaoming ^e  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Application offloading; energy efficient; mobile cloud

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS;

APPLICATION OFFLOADING; COMMUNICATION DELAYS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE CLOUDS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; RESIDUAL ENERGY;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 85027445580     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2466617     Document Type: Article

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