This article introduces a green cloudlet network (GCN) architecture in the context of mobile
cloud computing. The proposed architecture is aimed at providing seamless and low end-to …

In the Green Cloudlet Network (GCN) architecture, each User Equipment (UE) is associated
with an Avatar (a private virtual machine for executing its UE's offloaded tasks) in a cloudlet …

Fully utilizing green energy can remarkably decrease the operational cost of cloudlet
providers in provisioning green cloudlet networks (GCNs), which are powered by both green …

We propose a Green Cloudlet Network (GCN) architecture to provide seamless Mobile
Cloud Computing (MCC) services to User Equipments (UEs) with low latency in which each …

In a traditional big data network, data streams generated by User Equipments (UEs) are
uploaded to the remote cloud (for further processing) via the Internet. However, moving a …

We propose a novel network architecture by leveraging the cloudlet concept, the software
defined networking technology, and the cellular network infrastructure to bring the …

A cloudlet is an emerging computing paradigm that is designed to meet the requirements
and expectations of the Internet of things (IoT) and tackle the conventional limitations of a …

For the first time, this paper proposes a new network device denoted as 'Femtolet'for fifth
generation mobile network to provide communication and computation offloading facilities …

Abstract Interest in using Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) for compute intensive mobile
devices jobs such as multimedia applications has been growing. In fact, many new research …

Smartphones become more and more popular over recent years due to their small form
factors. However, such mobile systems are resource-constrained in view of computational …