San Murugesan

Mobile Cloud Computing

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is the state of the art distributed mobile computing technology that has recently been gaining ground to augment the computational capabilities of resource-constrained mobile devices using cloud-based resources. It employs cloud-based mobile augmentation (CMA) approaches to execute resource-intensive components of mobile applications efficiently outside the device in resource-rich cloud-based computing. However, employing CMA is not a straightforward panacea and is encumbered by varied challenges, particularly long wide-area network (WAN) latency. Researchers endeavored to mitigate the impacts of this by proposing varied architectures for MCC. In this chapter, we present a comprehensive overview of MCC, and present the definition, motivation, and taxonomy of MCC building blocks, followed by a brief comparison of cloud computing and MCC. Various MCC architectures are illustrated and scrutinized. Several open challenges that require future research are also presented.