Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing and Its Challenges

Author

Khan, Atta Ur Rehman ; Othman, Mazliza ; Feng Xia ; Khan, Abdul Nasir

Author_Institution

COMSATS Inst. of Inf. Technol., Pakistan

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

May-June 2015

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Cloud computing is gaining popularity due to virtually unlimited resources, low capital cost, ease of adoption, flexible resource provisioning, and high scalability. Considering these benefits, researchers envision the usage of cloud computing for mobile devices to overcome the ever-increasing computational and energy demands of smartphone applications. However, this requires specialized context-ware application development models that can facilitate the development of cloud-enabled applications capable of making context-aware computation offloading decisions. This article provides an overview of mobile cloud computing technology, focusing on its context-awareness aspects and challenges.

Keywords

cloud computing; mobile computing; cloud computing usage; context-aware application development models; context-aware mobile cloud computing; mobile devices; Cloud computing; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Context-aware services; Energy efficiency; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; application models; cloud; cloud computing; computation offloading; context awareness; mobile cloud computing; mobile computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Cloud Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2325-6095

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCC.2015.62

Filename

7158968