Title: A survey on methods and apparatus of offloading in mobile cloud computing

Authors: Priyajit Sen; Rajat Pandit; Debabrata Sarddar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, West Bengal State University, Kolkata-700126, West Bengal, India ' Department of Computer Science, West Bengal State University, Kolkata-700126, West Bengal, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

Abstract: Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is the recent technology that to provide execution of different mobile applications. Mobile devices are flexible and portable. The key disadvantages of mobile devices are limited battery life, lower bandwidth and insufficient storage capabilities. MCC reduces the drawbacks of mobile devices. The resolve the execution delay of mobile devices mobile edge computing (MEC) concept was proposed. Offloading is an effective method to save execution time and energy both. Code or Application Offloading allows executing a task in Cloud instead of Mobile Device itself. This paper presents a comprehensive discussion on different methodologies and the apparatus used for offloading of code or application into cloud. This paper also highlights on merits and demerits of different offloading techniques.

Keywords: MCC; mobile cloud computing; MEC; mobile edge computing; execution time; Femtolet; QoE; quality of experience; QoS; quality of service; delay; energy consumption; data offloading; computation offloading.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSE.2024.137063

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering, 2024 Vol.14 No.2, pp.212 - 225

Received: 30 Aug 2022
Accepted: 07 Nov 2022
Published online: 01 Mar 2024 *

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