In spite of the dramatic growth in the variety of smartphones in recent years, the challenge of limited energy capacity of those devices has not been solved satisfactorily. However, in the era of cloud computing, the limit on energy capacity may be relieved off in associate degree economical method by offloading heavy tasks to the cloud. it is vital for smartphone and cloud computing developers to possess insights into the energy worth of smartphone applications before implementing the offloading techniques. In this paper, we tend to value the energy value of multimedia applications on smartphones that square measure connected to multimedia Cloud Computing (MCC). We have conducted an intensive set of experiments to measure the energy costs to investigate whether or not or not smartphones save energy by victimisation MCC services.

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