A taxonomy of computation offloading in mobile cloud computing

• Published in: Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2014
• Main Author: Enzai N.I.M.; Tang M.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Computer Society 2014
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84903827182&doi=10.1109%2fMobileCloud.2014.16&partnerID=40&md5=916a06d3745b596e6145b8f11ded3b73

The ability of cloud computing to provide almost unlimited storage, backup and recovery, and quick deployment contributes to its widespread attention and implementation. Cloud computing has also become an attractive choice for mobile users as well. Due to limited features of mobile devices such as power scarcity and inability to cater computation intensive tasks, selected computation needs to be outsourced to the resourceful cloud servers. However, there are many challenges which need to be addressed in computation offloading for mobile cloud computing such as communication cost, connectivity maintenance and incurred latency. This paper presents taxonomy of the computation offloading approaches which aim to address the challenges. The taxonomy provides guidelines to identify research scopes in computation offloading for mobile cloud computing. We also outline directions and anticipated trends for future research. © 2014 IEEE.