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A Review of Mobile Computation Offloading Techniques

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Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (ICoICI 2022)

Part of the book series: Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures ((ECPSCI,volume 3))

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More and more people are increasingly using multimedia on their mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet PCs and smart watches as a result of technological improvements. The most significant elements of a mobile device are the battery life, memory, bandwidth, and CPU performance. When such computationally extensive tasks are performed on a mobile device, the battery quickly drains. However, offloading such tasks to a proxy and executing those results in significant power savings in mobile devices. We compare the ways of offloading to a proxy from a mobile device in this study based on power usage, energy, and execution time. A thorough examination of the offloading process is also presented. The findings show a significant reduction in the amount of energy consumed by mobile devices.

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    M. Jyothirmai & M. Sailaja

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    Kesavan Gopal

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  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Da-Yeh University, Dacun, Changhua, Taiwan

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Jyothirmai, M., Gopal, K., Sailaja, M. (2023). A Review of Mobile Computation Offloading Techniques. In: Hemanth, J., Pelusi, D., Chen, J.IZ. (eds) Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things. ICoICI 2022. Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18497-0_39

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