Computation offloading for smart internet devices

With the incessant advancement of smart internet devices and their ubiquitous usage, users prospect the same performance as if they used to run application on resources rich desktop devices. Smart internet devices are poor in resources such as storage, capacity, processing performance and battery life. Such mobile devices deliver lower performance as they are constrained by weight, size and mobility despite all the developments. These limitations can be ameliorated by utilizing the technique known as computation offloading. Computation offloading is the process of transferring compute-intensive data to resources rich servers called surrogates to run the entire or parts of application on behalf of mobile devices. In this paper, we present a survey on steps, criterion, types, flow and necessity of computation offloading with the reviewed computation offloading schemes. The Paper also proposes suggestions and opinions for future work in related field.