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The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Paramvir Bahl, Ramón Cáceres & Nigel Davies
Argues a mobile device should offload heavy computation to a small, one-hop-away server rather than a distant cloud, because the latency of a distant round trip breaks the interactive applications mobile engineering is trying to enable.
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