Power-aware remote display protocol for mobile cloud

Abstract

Integrated into cloud environments, the mobile device overcomes its weakness of resource-limited settings and mobile cloud computing is expected to be the next big trend in cloud computing research. Current remote display protocols used in mobile cloud computing have been developed for desktop computers which are plugged all the time while connecting through LAN (Local Area Network) and it should be scrutinized for mobile device characteristics. Apparently, in mobile cloud computing, there is a still limit of power on the end point. However, few studies on remote protocol framework consider power constraint and much research have focused on more performance for better quality of images in the area. Motivated by this, we propose an encoding scheme to reduce energy consumption on client side in mobile cloud computing. By lowering the power consumption of a CPU and a wireless network interface card, our adaptive encoding scheme achieves gains in energy conservation.