Framework for energy saving in the Android smartphone

Development of portable, handy and easy to use devices called smartphones has raised concerns of not only the researchers but also the general users. Most studies reveal that having a longer battery lifetime is the most desired feature amongst the limited computational resources like Battery, CPU and Memory in a Smartphone. Ideally, offloading a compute-intensive application over to the Cloud seems to be an oblivious fit for saving the limited battery in a Smartphone. In this paper, the focus has been made on enhancing the capabilities of smartphones by using Cloud computing and virtualization techniques to shift the workload from merely a smartphone to a resource rich computational cloud environment. The preliminary results of experimental performance and energy consumption measurements to support the idea to offload computationally expensive computations from a smartphone to a resource rich cloud environment are also presented in this paper.