Privacy and Security in Mobile Cloud Computing: Review

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing is computing of Mobile application through cloud. As we know market of mobile phones is growing rapidly. According to IDC, the premier global market intelligence firm, the worldwide Smartphone market grew 42.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2012.With the growing demand of Smartphone the demand for fast computation is also growing. Inspite of comparatively more processing power and storage capability of Smartphone's, they still lag behind Personal Computers in meeting processing and storage demands of high end applications like speech recognition, security software, gaming, health services etc. Mobile cloud computing is an answer to intensive processing and storage demand of real-time and high end applications. Being in nascent stage, Mobile Cloud Computing has privacy and security issues which deter the users from adopting this technology. This review paper throws light on privacy and security issues of Mobile Cloud Computing.