Design and Evaluation of Mobile Applications with Full and Partial Offloadings

  • Jennifer Kim
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7296)

Abstract

Mobile devices are widely accepted as a convergence machine providing both software functionality and cell phone capability. However, they have limited resources such as memory, processing power, and battery. Consequently, complex applications could not be deployed on the devices. An effective solution is to offload some functionality to more powerful servers and to run then on the servers, to yield improved performance and low resource consumption. In this paper, we propose a systematic process for designing mobile applications with full and partial offloading. And, we present schemes to quantitatively evaluate the resulting architecture. Using the proposed architecture design and evaluation methods, mobile applications with loading can be more systematically developed.

Keywords

Mobile App Offloading Architecture Quality Evaluation Metrics 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jennifer Kim
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  1. 1.Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineUSA

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