Our fast paced day-to-day life has been facilitated by the use of mobile phones. Our growing demand on applications that are used for business, entertainment and research areas has been pushing forward the development of ...

Currently, the most varied objects are connected to the Internet and, at the same time, generating massive amounts of data. Linked to this fact, the internet of things applications are increasingly complex and with more ...

Cloud-based offloading may improve mobile application performance and reduce energy consumption by migrating mobile code execution to the cloud. Nevertheless, it is not always the best bet, because of the high WAN delay. ...

Smartphones have achieved ubiquitous presence in people’s everyday life as communication, entertainment and work tools. Touch screens and a variety of sensors offer a rich experience and make applications increasingly ...

Mobile code offloading is a well-known technique for enhancing the capabilities of mobile platforms by transparently leveraging the resources to the cloud. Although this technique has been studied for years, little empirical ...

This paper discusses some challenges that user mobility imposes over the user-centric protection model against security threats. This model is based on the idea of offloading the security applications from the end user ...