Explosive data traffic growth leads to a continuous surge in capacity demands across mobile networks. In order to provision high network capacity, small cell base stations (SCBSs) are widely deployed. Owing to the close proximity to mobile users, SCBSs can effectively enhance the network capacity and offloading traffic load from macro BSs (MBSs). However, the cost-effective backhaul may not be ...

1389-1286/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2009.09.011 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 952134166; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Ortiz). The availability of multicore processors and programmable NICs, such as TOEs (TCP/IP Offloading Engines), provides new opportunities for designing efficient network interfaces to cope with the gap between the improvement ra...

This paper presents an offloading scheme which is an enhancement of ACOF[25]. This paper describes the challenges faced by the previous schemes and ACOF. The proposed scheme uses static as well as dynamic parameters to make the offloading decision making the offloading process very efficient. Keywords— Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing , Smart phones, offloading, android

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) frameworks implement mechanisms for selecting tasks in an application and offloading those tasks for execution on a cloud server. Task partitioning and task offloading aim to optimize performance objectives, like lower energy usage on mobile devices, faster application execution, while operating even in unpredictable environments. Offloading decisions are influenced...

Offloading work to cloud is one of the proposed solutions for increasing the battery life of mobile devices. Most prior research has focused on computation-intensive applications, even though such applications are not the most popular ones. In this paper, we first study the feasibility of method-level offloading in network-intensive applications, using an open source Twitter client as an exampl...

Mobile offloading is a promising technique to aid the constrained resources of a mobile device. By offloading a computational task, a device can save energy and increase the performance of the mobile applications. Unfortunately, in existing offloading systems, the opportunistic moments to offload a task are often sporadic and short-lived. We overcome this problem by proposing a social-aware hyb...

We constructed an open multi-access network platform using open-source hardware and software. The is characterized by the flexible utilization of functions, integral management control wired wireless access networks, zero-touch provisioning, intelligent resource monitoring, dynamic task offloading. also propose application-driven offloading that utilizes monitoring to ensure effective processin...

WiFi offloading is envisioned as a promising solution to the mobile data explosion problem in cellular networks. WiFi offloading for moving vehicles, however, poses unique characteristics and challenges, due to high mobility, fluctuating mobile channels, etc. In this paper, we focus on the problem of WiFi offloading in vehicular communication environments. Specifically, we discuss the challenge...