Energy efficient offloading for competing users on a shared communication channel

In this paper we consider mobile users that employ computation offloading. In computational offloading, users can reduce energy consumption by executing jobs on a remote cloud server, rather than locally. In order to execute a job in the cloud, a mobile user must upload the job over a base station channel which is shared by all of the uploading users. The jobs are subject to hard deadline constraints, and since the channel quality may be …