A Survey Study on QoE Perspective of Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Recently the mobile cloud computing (MCC) are increasingly emerging as an efficient environment to provide lots of effective and convenient mobile services for our daily life. Different from cloud computing, MCC dominant the properties of mobile devices rather than PC such as mobile network 3G/4G, limited hardware resources, mobility, etc. Therefore, Quality of Experience (QoE) on mobile devices plays an important role in evaluating the quality of mobile service in MCC. In this paper, we surveyed lots of works on QoE perspective of MCC. The QoE of end-user affected by network QoS factors (i.e., network bandwidth and latency) and application QoS factors, which depend on specific type of MCC services. All of these factors converged to the responsiveness and content visual quality, which determined the QoE perceived by end-user. We further presented the optimization efforts at research literatures to improve the QoE of MCC. Finally, we proposed couple of promising trends which have not mentioned before to enhance the QoE. We believe that the paper is helpful to better understand the impacts of massive deployment and adoption of MCC services.