HERMES: Latency Optimal Task Assignment for Resource-constrained Mobile Computing

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 3056-3069

  Kao, Yi Hsuan ^a   Krishnamachari, Bhaskar ^a   Ra, Moo Ryong ^b   Bai, Fan ^c  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b ATandT Research Lab   (United States)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

approximation algorithms; computational offloading; Mobile cloud computing; on line learning

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTATIONAL OFFLOADING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DELAY-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS; FULLY POLYNOMIAL TIME APPROXIMATION SCHEMES; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; ONLINE LEARNING; RESOURCECONSTRAINED DEVICES; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85032296153     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2017.2679712     Document Type: Article

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