Computation Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing and Mobile Edge Computing: Survey, Taxonomy, and Open Issues

Cloud and mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a wide range of services for applications. In particular, enables storage infrastructure provisioned closely to the end-users at cellular network. The small base stations are deployed establish network that can be coined with cloud infrastructure. A large number enterprises individuals rely on offered by clouds meet their computational demands. Based user behavior demand, tasks first offloaded from users then executed one or several specific in MEC architecture has capability handle devices turn generate high volumes traffic. this work, we provide holistic overview MCC/MEC technology includes background evolution remote computation technologies. Then, main part paper surveys up-to-date research concepts offloading mechanisms, granularities, techniques. Furthermore, discuss mechanism static dynamic environment along optimization We further challenges potential future directions research.