MCloud: A Context-Aware Offloading Framework for Heterogeneous Mobile Cloud

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 797-810

  Zhou, Bowen ^a   Dastjerdi, Amir Vahid ^a   Calheiros, Rodrigo N ^a   Srirama, Satish Narayana ^b   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

code offloading framework; context awareness; Mobile cloud computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CODES (SYMBOLS); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

CODE OFFLOADING FRAMEWORK; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DECISION ALGORITHMS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FAILURE DETECTION AND RECOVERIES; NETWORK CONDITION; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; SERVICE AVAILABILITY;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85032441378     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2015.2511002     Document Type: Article

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