Analysis and Evaluation of Mobile Cloud Computing: Service Models, Applications, and Issues

Abstract

The advancements in the field of mobile cloud computing (MCC) has challenged the scope and services of traditional mobile computing due to its overwhelming advantages such as reliability, scalability, extra storage and anywhere access. Mobile cloud computing is a vast platform that provides the services by integrating the advantages of mobile computing, cloud computing, and web services. There are various applications of mobile cloud computing in the field of mobile gaming, mobile healthcare, mobile learning etc. Despite MCC has achieved a lot of technical advancements with vast applications but there are still challenging issues like energy efficiency, resource management & optimization, data management & synchronization, trust, privacy, and security. There is the availability of a lot of research studies addressing the MCC based service models, applications, and different issues. In this research work, an analysis and evaluation of MCC based service models, applications, and issues are presented. The basic concept of mobile cloud computing, service models, applications, and issues are also discussed in brief.