Final Project

Instructions

• PDC Course Project Spring.pdf

Research Papers

• Mobile Cloud Computing - A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions.pdf

• Need of MCC

  • availability and information privacy.
  • Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) aims to overcome these limitations by integrating cloud computing into the mobile environment to enable mobile users and mobile application providers to elastically utilize resources in an on-demand fashion.
  • The main goal is to provide a better experience for mobile users whose devices have limited resources and capacities like computation, storage and battery
  • According to a recent study from Heavy Reading [9] the direct revenue of mobile cloud market will grow to about $68billionby2017.Itisexpectedtoachieve$1 trillion for the broader mobile cloud market.

• Definition of MCC

  • Given the current commercial hype and the fact that there are diverse ways of cooperating cloud computing and mobile applications, it is not surprising that there is no single widely accepted clear definition of MCC, as a result its scope can not be properly defined [1].
  • we refer to MCC as the set of techniques that use cloud resources to empower mobile applications
  • Mobile Cloud computing at its simplest refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device. Mobile cloud applications move the computing power and data storage away from mobile phones and into the cloud, bringing applications and mobile computing to not just smart phone users but a much broader range of mobile subscribers

• Definition of Cloud Computing

  • Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network(typically the Internet). It provides computation, software, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and system configuration.

• Applications

  • Mobile Learning

    • Challenges

      • Quick depletion of device energy when streaming videos
      • Not every part of a lecture needs to delivered using high quality video
      • Security and privacy of confidential interchanges are critical especially when testing and exams are online

  • Mobile Commerce (m-commerce)

    • Challenges

      • Secure Payment Gateways
      • Private Interactions between User and Provider
      • Techniques to structure where and how content is stored and released (public cloud vs. private cloud vs. mobile device)

  • Mobile healthcare and wellness (m-healthcare)

    • Challenges

      • Real time processing and storing of huge volumes of patient data
      • Privacy and Security of medical information

• Challenges

  • What to offload and when to offload
  • Much of the recent research focuses on making dynamic offloading decisions at runtime [39, 43, 54]rather than statically [55, 57] partitioning tasks based on past profiles
  • Open research issues
  • Low wireless bandwidth is one of the main limitations of MCC
  • Efficient usage of communication bandwidth in MCC is a rich area for research with multiple open issues.
  • Security and privacy are challenging issues for MCC applications such as m-commerce, m-health and mobile social network applications
  • temporal cloaking and domain transformation
  • Research issues pertaining to security and privacy in MCC that deserve attention
  • the MCC ecosystem contains interactions of many different businesses and service providers. Each of these organizational entities have different criteria and policies for providing service and customer management and interaction. Some interesting questions in this direction include
  • mobile devices and computers are being equipped with multiple and more accurate sensing capabilities than before. Such context information obtained from sensors are key enablers for the growth of MCC applications such as health and wellness. Interesting questions in this direction include

Final Paper

Unveiling Challenges and Shortcomings in Mobile Cloud Computing Applications.pdf