Cloud Computing for Mobile Users: Can Offloading Computation Save Energy?
ComputerPublished 1 April 2010
Karthik Kumar, Yung‐Hsiang Lu
Citations1,493
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The cloud heralds a new era of computing where application services are provided through the Internet, but is it the ultimate solution for extending such systems' battery lifetimes?
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The cloud heralds a new era of computing where application services are provided through the Internet. Cloud computing can enhance the computing capability of mobile systems, but is it the ultimate solution for extending such systems' battery lifetimes?
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