Research Article

Enhancing Offloading Systems with Smart Decisions, Adaptive Monitoring, and Mobility Support

Table 2

Model notation.

Symbol Description

Time to execute the method on mobile device (seconds)
Time to serialize/encrypt input data of method (seconds)
Time to deserialize/decrypt output data of method (seconds)
Time to transfer the method (upload) (seconds)
Time to transfer the method (download) (seconds)
Time to execute the method on remote server (seconds)∗
Queue waiting time on remote server (seconds)∗
Size of the input data of the method (bytes)
Size of the output data of the method (bytes)
Upload rate of the network in use (bytes/second)
Download rate of the network in use (bytes/seconds)

∗Note: might be or .