A Survey of Mobile Cloud Computing Advantages, Challenges and Approaches
Mohammad Rasoul Momeni · International Journal of Computer Science and business informatics/International journal of computer science and business informatics · 2015
Despite explosive growth of mobile computing and its popularity, full exploiting from it, is difficult due to lack of sufficient processing power, storage, also problems such as mobility, frequent disconnections and so on. With exploiting cloud computing along mobile computing a new technology appears called mobile cloud computing. It can overcome these obstacles by executing mobile applications on the cloud instead of mobile devices. Mobile cloud is a new and applicable technology that covers many fields such as: healthcare, vehicular, gaming, commerce and so on. The ABI Research believes that the number of mobile cloud computing users is expected to grow from 43 million (1.1% of total mobile users) in 2008 to 998 million (19% of total mobile users) in 2015. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of mobile cloud computing and explains its advantages, challenges and approaches. Also the future research directions are given.