Resource-intensive Mobile Application (RMA) execution is inhibited by mobile de- vice 

constrained resources, particularly CPU, RAM, storage, and battery. However, Mobile 

Cloud Computing (MCC) as the state-of-the-art mobile computing paradigm is aiming to 

augment computing capabilities of mobile devices, mitigate their resource-deficiency, and 

realize efficient execution of RMA. MCC solutions dominantly perform remote execution 

of resource-intensive RMAs’ components using resources-rich Distant Immobile Cloud 

(DIC), particularly public cloud. Although DICs feature high availability and elastic 

scalability, they are characterized by high communication latency and lack of mobility. 

Therefore, performance gains of mobile augmentation using DIC are mitigated and RMA 

execution efficiency is remarkably degraded. In this study, we aim to achieve efficient 

execution of RMAs by proposing a lightweight MCC framework. We verify the problem 

significance by analyzing time and energy overheads of exploiting DICs for augmenting resource-constraint mobile devices.