Abstract
The advancements in computing have resulted in a boom of cheap, ubiquitous, connected mobile devices as well as seemingly unlimited, utility style, pay as one go computing resources, commonly referred to as cloud computing. It is desirable to have ubiquitous access to emails and information through mobile computing. More and more individuals are carrying smartphones and utilizing tablet PCs for business and personal use. The 2010 IBM Tech Trends survey predicted that cloud computing will overtake on-premise computing and mobile software application development will emerge as the most in-demand software application development through 2015. Accordingly, it is reasonable to predict that mobile cloud computing, the niche where these two areas merge, will also transpire as a dominant force in both the development and research arenas through 2015 with the convergence of smartphones, tablets, and cloud computing. This paper introduces and explores the convergence of mobile computing with cloud computing and cloudlets and discusses the challenges and growth prospects of this dynamic field.
Highlights
A definition of mobile cloud computing in (Open Gardens, 2010) is expressed as “the availability of cloud computing services in a mobile ecosystem” and refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device from which an application is launched
This paper introduces and explores the convergence of mobile computing with cloud computing and cloudlets and discusses the challenges and growth prospects of this dynamic field
Mobile cloud computing has significantly improved the battery-life of mobile devices; it can be argued that the perfect balance of what is performed and stored in the cloud versus what is performed and stored on the mobile device to offer the most reasonable battery-life is still to be found
Summary
A definition of mobile cloud computing in (Open Gardens, 2010) is expressed as “the availability of cloud computing services in a mobile ecosystem” and refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device from which an application is launched. Mobile cloud computing is the art of or delicate balance of offloading various data, processing capabilities, and even Operating System (OS) tasks into the cloud. With mobile clouding computing applications, as long as the user has web access, the user can access the mobile application (ABI Research, 2010). According to ABI Research analyst Mark Beccue, “This trend is in its infancy today, but this has the potential of becoming the prevailing model for mobile applications” (Gohring, 2010). Driving all this growth will be the adoption of the new web standard HTML5, increased mobile broadband coverage and the need for always-on collaborative services for the enterprise. The full roll-out of 4G technology will help with issues of latency and bandwidth
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