OFFLOADING APPROACH IN MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

There are so many applications which are computationally heavy and need large energy consumption, running these applications on mobile device is not a good idea because mobile devices have limited resources, limited computational capacity and have very les s battery power. So the solution of running these power hungry applications on mobile devices is mobile cloud offloading. Offloading is a technique through which heavy applications can offload to the cloud to run and the result is returned back to the mobi le device. Mobile cloud offloading is a way to reduce execution time and energy consumption of any task on mobile device. The basic idea of offloading is to migrate heavy computations from mobile device to the cloud to save energy. The objective of this p aper is to explore the concept of mobile cloud offloading, how the decision of offloading is made, why we need offloading and its types. Here the architecture of offloading is also proposed.