Mobile Cloud Computing: Taxonomy and Challenges

Table 8

List of abbreviations for approaches and metrics terms.

Abbreviation	Name
FW/AT	Framework/architecture
MD	Model
AL	Analysis
DM	Dynamic
N-DM	Nondynamic
CP	CloudPlatform
U-DT	User-Developed Testbed
AL	Algorithm
SM-T	Simulation Tool
RT	Transmission rate
EC	Energy consumption
LT	Latency
EN/DN-T	Encryption and decryption time
TP	Throughput
SQ	Service quality
PL	Packet loss
DL	Delay
CT	Computation time
PSNR	Peak signal-to-noise ratio
NT	Network traffic
BU	Bandwidth usage
MU	Memory usage
WS	Workload size
GP	Goodput
RU	Resource utilization