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Phone2Cloud: Exploiting computation offloading for energy saving on smartphones in mobile cloud computing

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With prosperity of applications on smartphones, energy saving for smartphones has drawn increasing attention. In this paper we devise Phone2Cloud, a computation offloading-based system for energy saving on smartphones in the context of mobile cloud computing. Phone2Cloud offloads computation of an application running on smartphones to the cloud. The objective is to improve energy efficiency of smartphones and at the same time, enhance the application’s performance through reducing its execution time. In this way, the user’s experience can be improved. We implement the prototype of Phone2Cloud on Android and Hadoop environment. Two sets of experiments, including application experiments and scenario experiments, are conducted to evaluate the system. The experimental results show that Phone2Cloud can effectively save energy for smartphones and reduce the application’s execution time.

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This work was partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60903153 and No. 61203165, Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 201202032, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT12JR10).

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  1. School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116620, China

    Feng Xia, Fangwei Ding, Jie Li & Xiangjie Kong

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  3. Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Jianhua Ma

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Xia, F., Ding, F., Li, J. et al. Phone2Cloud: Exploiting computation offloading for energy saving on smartphones in mobile cloud computing. Inf Syst Front 16, 95–111 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-013-9458-1

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