Architectural patterns for service-based mobile applications

Abstract

Mobile devices provide computing power for running software applications as well as cell phone functionality. However, they could not host complex software applications, mainly due to their limited resources. This limitation can well be remedied by architectural design. We provide taxonomy with six different architectural patterns; standalone, full offloading, partial offloading, SaaS-based, CaaS-based, and offloaded CaaS-based. Different architectural patterns yield different levels of qualities, especially for performance and lower energy consumption for mobile applications.