Stochastic Analysis of Delayed Mobile Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 461-474

  Wu, Huaming ^a   Wolter, Katinka ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

energy performance tradeoff; heterogeneous networks; Mobile cloud computing; mobile offloading; queueing model

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; QUEUEING THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

DELAY-SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS; DELAY-TOLERANT APPLICATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT NETWORKS; ENERGY PERFORMANCE TRADEOFFS; MOBILE OFFLOADING; QUEUEING MODEL; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 85040646088     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2017.2711014     Document Type: Article

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