Mobile cloud computing for computation offloading: Issues and challenges

Applied Computing and Informatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-16

  Akherfi, Khadija ^a   Gerndt, Micheal ^a   Harroud, Hamid ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Cloud computing; Computational offloading; Mobile cloud computing; Partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047646760     PISSN: 26341964     EISSN: 22108327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aci.2016.11.002     Document Type: Review

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