Optimizing battery utilization and reducing time consumption in smartphones exploiting the power of cloud computing

Abstract

Over the past few years, the usage and boost of handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and smartphones have increased rapidly and estimates show that they will even exceed the number of Personal Computers (PCs) by 2013. Smartphones enable a rich, new, and ubiquitous user experience, but have limited hardware resources on computation and battery. In this paper, the focus has been made on enhancing the capabilities of smartphones by using cloud computing and virtualization techniques to shift the workload from merely a smartphone to a resource-rich computational cloud environment.