A survey of mobile cloud computing: architecture, applications, and approaches

TLDR

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) emerged as a promising technology for mobile services amid rapid growth of mobile apps and the rise of cloud computing. The paper surveys MCC to provide readers with an overview of its definition, architecture, applications, and future research directions. The survey outlines how MCC integrates cloud computing into mobile environments to address performance, environmental, and security challenges, and reviews existing solutions and approaches. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Together with an explosive growth of the mobile applications and emerging of cloud computing concept, mobile cloud computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a potential technology for mobile services. MCC integrates the cloud computing into the mobile environment and overcomes obstacles related to the performance (e.g., battery life, storage, and bandwidth), environment (e.g., heterogeneity, scalability, and availability), and security (e.g., reliability and privacy) discussed in mobile computing. This paper gives a survey of MCC, which helps general readers have an overview of the MCC including the definition, architecture, and applications. The issues, existing solutions, and approaches are presented. In addition, the future research directions of MCC are discussed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.