The IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Cloud (UMC 2014)

Mobile devices are now the most convenient and ubiquitous interface for accessing information services. The advanced sensing capabilities of these devices enable them to effectively observe, analyze and understand the context of the current environment and thus are used as service providers. However, the resource constraints of mobile devices limit the type and scale of functionality that can be offered by mobile applications/services. Mobile cloud promises to bridge the gap between limited resources and increasing demands of future mobile applications through an elastic resource provisioning model. Mobile ubiquitous cloud enables resource-constrained mobile devices to offload some or all of their processing and storage requirements to the cloud infrastructure, on the go. This convergence between cloud computing technologies and the convenience of mobile devices offers improved performance of mobile systems and superior user experience. The topic of ubiquitous mobile cloud draws on inspirational ideas from many diverse domains including cloud computing, wireless technologies, context-aware computing, mobile commerce, location-based services, and vehicular networks.