The amount of traffic in wireless networks is increasing exponentially, and this problem can be mitigated using device-to-device (D2D) caching technology, which installs a cache on mobile end device. Devices reduce the cell load through self-offloading via content their own D2D offloading others' caches. However, especially early stage systems, limited number devices with small storage might us...

Both governments and car manufacturers have recently made huge investments in electric vehicles (EVs) to turn them into a viable solution to cope with problems such as pollution due to internal combustion engines and increasing gas prices. For instance, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has invested 4 billion in EVs since 2010. In particular, they signed a partnership with Better Place, a company tha...

Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices, ranging from small IoT devices to powerful laptop computers, can provide a powerful platform for local mobile cloud computing. The vision can be realized by peer-to-peer cooperative computing between edge devices, which is called co-computing and the theme of this paper. We consider a co-computing system where...

The latest developments in mobile computing technology have enabled intensive applications on the modern Smartphones. However, such applications are still constrained by limitations in processing potentials, storage capacity and battery lifetime of the Smart Mobile Devices (SMDs). Therefore, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) leverages the application processing services of computational clouds for m...

In order to support communication and computation cooperation, we propose MC-RAN architecture, which consists of mobile cloud (MC) as the computation provision platform and radio access network (RAN) as the communication interface. The MC-RAN aims to undertake the following tasks: (1) to increase user equipments’ computing capacity by triggering offloading action, especially for those UEs which...

In this paper, a salary-plus-bonus incentive mechanism is proposed to motivate WiFi Access Points (APs) to provide data offloading service for mobile network operators (MNOs). Under the proposed salary-plus-bonus scheme, WiFi APs are rewarded not only based on offloaded data volume but also based on the quality of their offloading service. The interactions between WiFi APs and the MNO under thi...

Background Diabetic foot ulcers are frequently related to elevated pressure under a bony prominence. Conservative treatment includes offloading with orthopaedic shoes and custom made orthotics or plaster casts. While casting in plaster is usually effective in achieving primary closure of foot ulcers, recurrence rates are high. Minimally invasive surgical offloading that includes correction of f...