Time-and-energy-aware computation offloading in handheld devices to coprocessors and clouds

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 393-405

  Lin, Ying Dar ^a   Chu, Edward T H ^b   Lai, Yuan Cheng ^c   Huang, Ting Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Android; cloud computing; computation offloading; coprocessors

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SMARTPHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

ANDROID; CO-PROCESSORS; COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; OFFLOADING COMPUTATIONS; REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

POWER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85027924528     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2289556     Document Type: Article

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