Green Mobile Clouds: Making Mobile Devices More Energy Efficient

Green communications has gained a lot of interest lately and the question here is how mobile clouds can help to improve the energy efficiency of mobile devices. In this chapter the energy‐saving
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potential of mobile clouds is demonstrated. A particular scenario is chosen for this purpose, namely a cooperative download case where users retrieve a desired content in a collaborative manner. The effect on download speed is also investigated. Several cooperative strategies for the mobile cloud are studied and their energy–saving performance is compared.