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Nowadays mobile devices are very popular and users expect to run the same applications on mobile devices as onstatic computers. However, these devices oftenhave lower performance than static computers that is due to the constraints imposed on mobile devicesby weight, size, and mobility. Cyber foraging approaches have tried to amelioratethe lower performance of mobile devices by exploiting more powerful static computersto run some computational intensive taskson behalfof mobile devices. Unfortunately, these approaches havenot been effective in all contexts. In this paper, we propose a new context-aware cyber foraging approachto select the best location to run an application, based oncontext metrics such as application specification, computation cost and communication cost. Experimental results show the superiority of ourproposed approach in achieving lower response time andenergy consumptionin executing some benched applications compared to when these applications are solely run on mobile devices or when theseapplications aretotallyoffloaded blindly to surrogates for execution.
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Kafaie, S., Kashefi, O., Sharifi, M. (2011). A Context-Based Cyber Foraging Approach to Mobile Computing Empowerment. In: Özcan, A., Zizka, J., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks. CoNeCo WiMo 2011 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21937-5_34
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