The practical success of pervasive services running in mobile wireless networks and
devices relies on their ability to provide effective and efficient offloading support, so as to
satisfy the increasing demand for mobile devices to run heavier applications (eg those
running on desktop PCs). Offloading is an effective mechanism for leveraging the severity of
resource constrained mobile devices by migrating some computing load to nearby resource-
rich surrogates (eg desktop PCs, servers) on home networks or their extension. This paper …