Heterogeneity in mobile cloud computing: taxonomy and open challenges

Z Sanaei, S Abolfazli, A Gani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unabated flurry of research activities to augment various mobile devices by leveraging
heterogeneous cloud resources has created a new research domain called Mobile Cloud …

Energy management techniques in modern mobile handsets

N Vallina-Rodriguez, J Crowcroft - … Communications Surveys & …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Managing energy efficiently is paramount in modern smartphones. The diverse range of
wireless interfaces and sensors, and the increasing popularity of power-hungry applications …

A close examination of performance and power characteristics of 4G LTE networks

J Huang, F Qian, A Gerber, ZM Mao, S Sen… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
With the recent advent of 4G LTE networks, there has been increasing interest to better
understand the performance and power characteristics, compared with 3G/WiFi networks. In …

Maui: making smartphones last longer with code offload

E Cuervo, A Balasubramanian, D Cho… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents MAUI, a system that enables fine-grained energy-aware offload of
mobile code to the infrastructure. Previous approaches to these problems either relied …

An in-depth study of LTE: Effect of network protocol and application behavior on performance

J Huang, F Qian, Y Guo, Y Zhou, Q Xu… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
With lower latency and higher bandwidth than its predecessor 3G networks, the latest
cellular technology 4G LTE has been attracting many new users. However, the interactions …

Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps

Q Xu, J Erman, A Gerber, Z Mao, J Pang… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Smartphone users are increasingly shifting to using apps as" gateways" to Internet services
rather than traditional web browsers. App marketplaces for iOS, Android, and Windows …

A measurement-based study of multipath tcp performance over wireless networks

YC Chen, Y Lim, RJ Gibbens, EM Nahum… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
With the popularity of mobile devices and the pervasive use of cellular technology, there is
widespread interest in hybrid networks and on how to achieve robustness and good …

Demystifying page load performance with {WProf}

XS Wang, A Balasubramanian… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2013 - usenix.org
Web page load time is a key performance metric that many techniques aim to reduce.
Unfortunately, the complexity of modern Web pages makes it difficult to identify performance …

A comparative analysis of cross-platform development approaches for mobile applications

S Xanthopoulos, S **nogalos - … of the 6th Balkan Conference in …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, native mobile applications (mobile apps) are targeted at specific mobile
platforms. This phenomenon imposes severe constraints, such as the use of different …

A first look at traffic on smartphones

H Falaki, D Lymberopoulos, R Mahajan… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Using data from 43 users across two platforms, we present a detailed look at smartphone
traffic. We find that browsing contributes over half of the traffic, while each of email, media …