...Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC): A Survey Abstract: Mobile devices have come a long way and their capabilities in terms of speed, raw computing capabilities, storage capacity and the applications that are real world end user friendly. The sale of mobile devices has seen a huge boom and is now surpassing those of PCs [1]. With this enormous use of smart phones across the world and as well as the introduction of cloud computing concept, Mobile Cloud computing or MCC has become the new paradigm in the world of mobile services. This paper will discuss the technology of MCC, applications and challenges faced. Mobile Cloud Computing: Introduction MCC in its simplest form can be defined as an infrastructure where the storage of data and its processing is outside a mobile device. What mobile cloud computing does is move processing and storage to the cloud and thereby bringing applications and the computing power to a broader spectrum of mobile users [2]. Mobile service providers can provide services to the subscribers as AAA which refers to authentication, authorization and as well as accounting which is based on what is known as an home agent or HA and the end users data being stored on the cloud database. Every time a request is initiated from the subscriber, it is delivered to the cloud based system with the help of Internet. The controllers on the cloud will be able to process these requests and eventually providing the subscribers with the respective cloud based service. These...
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...science-cloud computing [pic] cloud computing 2012-cloud computing cloud computing-year-2011 cloud computing-2 best-papers-EEE cloud computing data storage in cloud computing data-compression-in-cloud-computing Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. Parallels to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid, where end-users consume power without needing to understand the component devices or infrastructure required to provide the service. Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on Internet protocols, and it typically involves provisioning of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet. This frequently takes the form of web-based tools or applications that users can access and use through a web browser as if they were programs installed locally on their own computers.[5] Typical cloud computing providers...
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...A Virtual Mobile Cache Applied to an Integrated Real-Time Display In today’s society recent advances in wireless communication technologies has made the world of mobile computing flourish with a variety of applications. In this paper, I will present an overview of existing research in the vast area of Virtual Mobile Computing in Real-time Display. This new paradigm of computing called mobile computing enables users carrying portable devices to have access to data and information services regardless of their physical location or movement behavior. I will provide comparative and detailed review of research prototypes along with analyzing new paradigms and enabler concepts for mobile client-server computing. Along with these paradigms, I chose to also discuss the advances in research on location-aware computing, and talks about how the advances in this area could have important implications, not just for how geospatial data are acquired, but also for how and what quality they can be delivered, and how mobile and geographically distributed systems are designed. Recent advances in wireless networking technology and portable information appliances have created a new paradigm of computing. This paradigm called mobile computing enables its users who carry portable devices to have access to information services through a shared infrastructure, regardless of their physical location or movement behavior (Jing 118). Traditional techniques for information access are based on the assumptions...
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...General comments | Research Proposal Research Topic: Business Intelligence goes Mobile: Business Analytics Anytime, Anywhere. Abstract: Mobile business intelligence refers to the circulation and dispersion of business data with the help of mobile devices such as smart phones, tablet computers etc. Business intelligence is a technique by digging out and excavate data and analysing it with the help of computer based technique. Corporates today are increasingly using various handheld devices and latest gadgets in delivering rich web content which help managers to have extensive access to corporate data. This is not just confined to managers but other official also who can be in constant touch with clients and assess the data using mobile analytics (A Savvas 2010) Introduction : Mobile business intelligence is the data driven applications on mobile devices like handheld devices , smart phones and tablet computers which help users to access business information anytime anywhere. This mobile BI has made a drastic change in the corporate world; using mobile BI corporates can analyse and circulate the data to their clients and colleagues on theirs handheld devices. There are many benefits of mobile BI but apart from it still it has some challenges . Security of the data that is sent on mobile devices poses risk of hacking . Data that is sent has to be checked i.e what information is going outside the firewall and how they will protect it...
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...recent years, cloud computing frameworks such as Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine and Windows Azure have become increasingly popular among IT organizations and developers. We have seen a phenomenal increase in the usage and deployment of smartphone platforms and applications worldwide. We further identify research gaps covering critical aspects of how MCC can be realized and effectively utilized at scale. These include improved resource allocation in the MCC environment through efficient task distribution and offloading, security and privacy. Mobile cloud computing has recently attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. According to a recent study from Heavy Reading [9] the direct revenue of mobile cloud market will grow to about $68 billion by 2017. It is expected to achieve $1 trillion for the broader mobile cloud market. A similar forecast has also been made by ABI research , which predicts that the number of mobile cloud computing subscribers (like mobile users and mobile application providers) worldwide is expected to grow rapidly over the next five years, rising from 42.8 million subscribers in 2008, (approximately 1.1 % of all mobile subscribers) to over 998 million in 2014 (nearly 19 %). Security and privacy are challenging issues for MCC applications such as m-commerce, m-health and mobile social network applications. These applications are naturally resource intensive in terms of computation and storage. Using cloud computing resources appears...
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...ABSTRACT In the context of the rapid growth of mobile computing penetration in developing countries, mobile telephony is currently considered to be particularly important for such development. Yet, until recently, very little systematic evidence was available that shed light on the developmental impacts of mobile computing. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the problems and prospects of mobile computing in Nigeria. The paper will be analyzed by theme in order to provide a thematic overview as well as a comparative analysis of the development role of mobile computing. In exploring the evidence from completed projects as well as the foci of new projects, the paper summarizes and critically assesses the key findings and suggests possible avenues for future research. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The fusion of computer and telecommunication technologies has heralded the age of information superhighway over wire-line and wireless networks. Mobile cellular communication systems and wireless networking technologies are growing at an ever-faster rate, and this is likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Wireless technology is presently being used to link portable computer equipment to corporate distributed computing and other sources of necessary information. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Higher...
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...MOBILE COMPUTING ANS SOCIAL NETWORKING Mobile Computing and Social Networking CIS 500-Information Technology for Management Professor Clifton Howell February 23, 2014 Mobile Computing and Social Networking U S Healthcare costs have been on the rise for over 50 years, and have increased at an alarming rate of 2-3 times the norm within the past six years. This is one profession where mobile computing has had a substantial impact, and this paper will compare and contrast the monitoring of patient vital signs using mobile computing technology to in-patient visits to doctors’ offices or hospitals; it will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile computing technology to monitor patients; assess the security concerns with regard to the transmission of personal medical information over wireless networks; and assess the use of social networking for group support for patients with similar medical concerns. Mobile Computing and Social Networking In today’s society, emerging developments in technology have greatly impacted the healthcare industry, especially when it comes to patient care and the monitoring of their vitals. Traditionally, patients communicate their health concerns to their physicians, who in turn schedule an appointment and conduct a series of tests and relay the results to the patient. When the tests dictate the need to monitor a patient’s vital signs, due to resultant findings, the patient is required to check in to a local facility...
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...CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION Mobile devices allow users to run powerful applications that take advantage of the growing availability of built-in sensing and better data exchange capabilities of mobile devices. As a result, mobile applications seamlessly integrate with real-time data streams and Web 2.0 applications, such as mashups, open collaboration, social networking and mobile commerce. The mobile execution platform is being used for more and more tasks, e.g., for playing games; capturing, editing, annotating and uploading video; handling finances; managing personal health, micro payments, ticket purchase, interacting with ubiquitous computing infrastructures. Even mobile device hardware and mobile networks continue to evolve and to improve, mobile devices will always be resource-poor, less secure, with unstable connectivity, and with less energy since they are powered by battery. Mobile devices can be seen as entry points and interface of cloud online services. Mobile devices (e.g., smartphone, tablet pcs, etc.) are increasingly becoming an essential part of human life as the most effective and convenient communication tools not bounded by time and place. Mobile users accumulate rich experience of various services from mobile applications (e.g., iPhone apps, Google apps, etc.), which run on the devices and/or on remote servers via wireless networks. The rapid progress of mobile computing (MC) becomes a powerful trend in the development of IT technology as well as commerce...
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...Mobile computing and social networks are part of the daily lives of millions of Americans. “48% of American adults own a mobile computing device in some form according to the latest Nielsen data.” (Knott, 2012) As far as social networking site usage “over 65% of all internet users in the United States use social networking sites.” (Brenner, 2012) It is obvious that mobile computing and social networking on the web is not a passing fade. There are many uses and applications for mobile computing and social networks. In this paper a few of these aspects will be examined. First an assessment will be made as to the effectiveness and efficiency mobile-based applications provide to capture geolocation data and customer data, and quickly upload to a processing server without users having to use a desktop system. Second, an evaluation of the benefits realized by consumers because of the ability to gain access to their own data via mobile applications will be completed. Third, the challenges of developing applications that run on mobile devices because of the small screen size will be examined. Forth, the methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, i.e., iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, or Android will be described. Fifth, due to mobile applications requiring high availability because end users need to have continuous access to IT and IS systems, a discussion of the ways of providing high availability will be undertaken. Finally, because mobile devices are subjected to hacking...
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...What is Cloud? The term Cloud refers to a Network or Internet. In other words, we can say that Cloud is something which is present at remote location. Cloud can provide services over network i.e. on public networks or on private networks i.e. WAN, LAN or VPN. Applications such as e-mail, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), all run in cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing refers to manipulating, configuring, and accessing the applications online. It offers online data storage, infrastructure and application. We need not to install a piece of software on our local PC and this is how, the cloud computing overcomes platform dependency issues. Hence, the Cloud Computing is making our business application mobile and collaborative. Cloud Computing Technologies There are certain technologies that are working behind the cloud computing platforms making cloud computing flexible, reliable, usable. These technologies are listed below: * Virtualization * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) * Grid Computing * Utility Computing Virtualization Virtualization is a technique which allows to share single physical instance of an application or resource among multiple organizations or tenants(customers). It does so by assigning a logical name to a physical resource and providing a pointer to that physical resource when demanded. The Multitenant architecture offers virtual isolation among the multiple tenants and therefore, the organizations...
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...Secured Authenticated Framework for Mobile Clouding VARRI MURALI KRISHNA(213CS1143) DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Abstract Cloud computing is creates many challenges in the information technology world every day. In present situations use of resources using mobile phones becomes one of the essential things for everybody. The demands of the user in internet increasing day by day. But every wireless hand held devices don't have that much of resource availability and required facility. So, cloud computing is a better solution to give support resource consuming applications. If the mobiles are integrated with the cloud then user can get more facilities with resources required and big storage space for storing his private data. With addition to the benefits of cloud, there is a chance to face the security and privacy issues of the user data. This paper discuss important concepts of cloud computing and general security issues happened in mobile side as well as cloud and also describes basic idea of Kerberos. The aim of this paper is to propose the strong authenticated framework when mobiles are connected to cloud. We have proposed the improvement in the mobile cloud based framework for better security and privacy. Keywords: mobile cloud computing applications, security of data, Kerberos 2. Introduction and literature survey Rapid development in the mobile devices and cloud computing has creating some attention to everyone in the IT industry. Consider the development of security...
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...monitors, printers, and audio output devices. • List and describes the various type of computers available to businesses today. * Mainframes are a large-capacity, high-performance computer that can process large amounts of data very rapidly. * Midrange computers are servers computers are specifically optimized to support a computer network, enabling users to share files, software, peripheral devices (such as printers), or other network resources. * PC’s are desktop or laptop machines. * Workstations are desktop machines with powerful mathematical and graphic capabilities. * Supercomputers are sophisticated, powerful computers that can perform massive and complex computations rapidly. • Define the client/server model of computing, and describe the...
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...Term Paper Mobile Computing and Social Networks Emanuel Hampton - Student CIS 500 - Information Systems for Decision Making Dr. Ringhand - Professor June 13, 2013 I. Introduction. There are thousands of applications that have been developed for mobile devices which perform a myriad of tasks and processes. In the beginning most of these applications were games. Business later joined the mobile revolution and developed their own business based applications to run on these mobile devices. Many mobile business applications can now streamline business processes, reduce operational processing times and provide better customer service. The mobile revolution has forced many industries to reengineer their business processes to accommodate the many mobile devices. In order for a business to remain competitive within their particular industry they must engage the mobile platform. In fact today, the customers demand and expect that these applications be available for their use. For this final term paper I have been asked to: (1) Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile-based applications especially those which utilize GPS to capture information vice a desktop PC. (2) Evaluate the benefits afforded to the customer from mobile applications. (3) Examine the challenges of developers to design mobile applications to meet the various mobile devices specifications especially their many screen formats. (4) Describe methodologies to use to select the mobile platform...
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...Introduction Research is generally undertaken to assist in elaborating on and uncovering the complexities of real world problems. A problem statement was outlined and research questions were raised during the researcher’s literature review. This problem statement and research questions identified in the researchers literature review requires comprehensive and extensive research and analysis to facilitate the drawing of logical conclusions. The researcher’s literature review was based on addressing BIG DATA challenges using Semantic/Cloud Technologies and gives introduction to the pertinent propositions that will guide the strategy of the researcher’s research. Overview of Research Paradigm Willis (Willis 2007) illustrates that a paradigm is a comprehensive belief system, framework or world which guides research and practice in a specific field. Due to the multidimensional nature of the problem statement and research questions derived from the researcher’s literature review, the research will design research by...
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...How does Salesforce.com use cloud computing? Salesforce provides customer relationship management (CR M) and other application software solutions in the form of software as a service leased over the Internet, as opposed to software bought and installed on machines locally. The on –demand model eliminates the need for large up-front hardware and software investments in systems and lengthy implementations on corporate computers. What are some of the challenges facing Salesforce as it continues its growth? How well will it be able to meet those challenges? Some of the challenges facing Salesforce is increased competition from traditional industry leaders like SAP , IBM and new comers who are trying to duplicate their success. Expansion into other areas of cloud computing, 24/7 service with no outages and protecting the system from security attacks. Salesforce is working on some of the challenges by teaming up with Google and combining its services with Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk and Google Calendar to accomplish more using the web and Google apps. It also is partnering itself with Google’s completion Apple. With the great market share that Apple has they hope it would help them to capture more of the market share. It is also trying to expand the cloud computing into three types of clouds; the Sales Cloud, the Service Cloud, and Custom Cloud. What kinds of businesses could benefit from switching to Salesforce and why? Small to medium-size businesses are probably the most...
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