An Efficient Social Based Data Forwarding Mechanism for Mobile Cloud Computing

Recently, mobile devices have become increasingly affordable, reliable and pervasive in contemporary society. Meanwhile, cloud computing is playing an increasingly role in people´s daily life. Together with these two promising technologies, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been introduced as a potential technology in future. However, since the mobility of cloud users in MCC, service availability becomes one of the significant challenges which has to be addressed. This paper introduces an efficient social based data forwarding mechanism to improve the service availability of MCC under Ad Hoc network environment. Users in MCC are treated as entity nodes with social characteristics as well as can be grouped into different communities. Thus mobile user can connect to the cloud through neighbouring nodes instead of direct link to clouds. By using this mechanism, the service availability will be improved with the improvement of data forwarding efficiency. We performed simulation of our technique on CloudSim. The empirical results show that the proposed mechanism is promising in enabling the mobile nodes to be efficiently searched.