Mobile devices (MDs), represented by smartphones, have been widely used in various
industries. However, MDs are constrained by their limited resources and cannot execute …

The development of cloud computing and virtualization techniques enables mobile devices
to overcome the severity of scarce resource constrained by allowing them to offload …

Covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of fault-tolerant mobile systems, and fault
tolerance and analysis, this book tackles the current issues of reliability-based optimization …

Coordinated checkpointing is a method that minimises number of processes to checkpoint
for an initiation. It may require blocking of processes, extra synchronisation messages or …

Offloading is an approach to leverage the severity of resource constrained nature of mobile
devices (such as PDAs, mobile phones) by migrating part of the computation of applications …

To meet the rapidly increasing need of computation-intensive and latency-sensitive
applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) has attracted tremendous attention from both …

A checkpoint algorithm for a mobile distributed computing system (MDCS) needs to handle
many new issues like: mobility, low bandwidth of wireless channels, lack of stable storage …

Many cache management schemes designed for mobile environments are based on
invalidation reports (IRs). However, IR-based approach suffers from long query latency and …

Distributed snapshots are an important building block for distributed systems, and are useful
for constructing efficient checkpointing protocols, among other uses. Direct application of …

Mobile computing raises many new issues, such as lack of stable storage, low bandwidth of
wireless channels, high mobility and limited battery life. These issues make traditional …