Research Area:  Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract:

Cloud computing is gaining popularity due to virtually unlimited resources, low capital cost, ease of adoption, flexible resource provisioning, and high scalability. Considering these benefits, researchers envision the usage of cloud computing for mobile devices to overcome the ever-increasing computational and energy demands of smartphone applications. However, this requires specialized context-ware application development models that can facilitate the development of cloud-enabled applications capable of making context-aware computation offloading decisions. This article provides an overview of mobile cloud computing technology, focusing on its context-awareness aspects and challenges.

Keywords:  
mobile cloud computing
context awareness
mobile computing
cloud computing
application models
computation offloading
cloud

Author(s) Name:  Atta ur Rehman Khan; Mazliza Othman; Feng Xia; Abdul Nasir Khan

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/MCC.2015.62

Volume Information:  Volume: 2, Issue: 3, May-June 2015, Page(s): 42 - 49

Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7158968