This paper surveys the literature of opportunistic offloading. Opportunistic offloading refers to
offloading traffic originally transmitted through the cellular network to opportunistic network …

By deploying computing units in edge servers, the device‐generated computation‐intensive
tasks can be offloaded from the cloud, lessening the core network's traffic and reducing the …

Edge computing emerges as a promising paradigm to decentralize computation power to
the edge of the network and thus improve user experience by task offloading. A user can …

During the last years, researche'rs have proposed solutions to help smartphones improve
execution time and reduce energy consumption by offloading heavy tasks to remote entities …

Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) bring massive intelligent applications, many of which
are computation intensive and time sensitive. With limited resources of IoT devices, mobile …

Computation offloading via device-to-device (D2D) communication, or D2D offloading, can
enhance mobile computing performance by exploiting spare computing resources of nearby …

D2D interactions are promoted both in the context of traffic and computation offloading.
Applications with functionalities that are executed in parallel in more than one mobile device …

The increasing complexity of smartphone applications and services necessitate high battery
consumption, but the growth of smartphones' battery capacity is not keeping pace with these …

Cooperative computation among peer mobile devices via device-to-device (D2D) links, aka
D2D offloading, is a promising technology to enhance mobile computing performance and …

Several applications, from the Internet of Things for smart cities to those for vehicular
networks, need fast and reliable proximity-based broadcast communications, ie, the ability to …