TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Function Level Static Offloading Scheme for Saving Energy of Mobile Devices in Mobile Cloud Computing
AU  - Min, Hong 
AU  - Jung, Jinman 
AU  - Heo, Junyoung 
JO  - Journal of KIISE, JOK
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/1/14
DO  - 
KW  - mobile cloud computing
KW  - computation offloading
KW  - task partitioning
KW  - energy efficiency
AB  - Mobile cloud computing is a technology that uses cloud services to overcome resource constrains of a mobile device, and it applies the computation offloading scheme to transfer a portion of a task which should be executed from a mobile device to the cloud. If the communication cost of the computation offloading is less than the computation cost of a mobile device, the mobile device commits a certain task to the cloud. The previous cost analysis models, which were used for separating functions running on a mobile device and functions transferring to the cloud, only considered the amount of data transfer and response time as the offloading cost. In this paper, we proposed a new task partitioning scheme that considers the frequency of function calls and data synchronization, during the cost estimation of the computation offloading. We also verified the energy efficiency of the proposed scheme by using experimental results.