Mobile Cloud Computing Issues, Challenges, and Needs

Abstract: Mobile cloud computing has gained popularity because of its potential to minimize power consumption and enhance user experience by outsourcing resource/computation intensive applications/operations from mobile devices to clouds. Mobile Cloud Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications is the first complete reference book on mobile cloud computing. Mobile devices suffer from poor battery life and limited resource and storage capacity. To overcome these constraints, mobile cloud computing has introduced offloading, where data storage and computations are performed inside the remote cloud instead of the mobile device. With this emergence, mobile cloud computing has become a vital issue that requires an energy-efficient mobile network and green cloud environment. Resource allocation and security are also important issues discussed in detail in this book. Mobile cloud computing–based health monitoring, gaming, learning, and commerce are feasible due to high-speed 4G/5G mobile networks. The issues of mobile cloud computing are discussed in the 14 chapters with future open research problems

Keywords: Mobile cloud computing, cloud computing, mobile cloud services, mobile cloud applications, and mobile computing