Overview of Mobile Computation Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing Environment (original) (raw)

Mobile device functionality is ever richer in daily life, but they still lack the required amount of resources when it comes to handling resourcehungry applications. Nowadays, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) bridges the gap between the limited capabilities of mobile devices (battery life, network bandwidth, storage capacity, processor performance) and the increasing user demand of mobile applications, by offloading the computational workloads from local devices to the remote cloud. This paper provides an overview of the back-ground, techniques, and research areas for computation offloading. Moreover, the issues, existing solutions, and approaches are presented.