Abstract

Today, with the use of mobile devices everywhere and with the success of cloudcomputing, the concept of mobile cloud computing (MCC) has been introduced. MCC is anincorporation of cloud computing into the mobile environment. In MCC, computing resources such asmemory, processing and storage are not actually present at the device of user. Instead, these resourcesare moved on to a remote location known as cloud and are owned by some service provider. The useraccesses these resources through internet. The advantages associated with MCC are low initialinvestment by a user, low cost of operation and maintenance. There are also several problems relatedto the MCC which are limited battery life, storage and bandwidth, diverse operating systems of mobiledevices and security. Various solutions for MCC problems have been developed with their ownadvantages and disadvantages. This paper presents a survey of MCC, its architecture, its problems andexisting solution of those problems and advantages and disadvantages of different solutions.

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