24X7X365
Khalid Mohiuddin, Asharul Islam, Aftab Alam, Awais Ali · 2012
In the present era computing technology have been evolved and integrated with other service-centric technologies to achieve better performance. Computing architecture and nature of access changed drastically the format of service-delivery model. Technologies like mobile and cloud make computing power globally/universally available. Mobile offers computing on move and cloud provides ilities (Availability, Scalability, and Reliability) of computing resources on service-based economic model. The integration of both the technologies offers IT infrastructure/services on move, anywhere, any time (always on), anyhow (in disruptive environment) and to anybody (for all types of users) or simply we termed as mobile cloud access 24X7X365. The scalable provision of services and more effective use of resources is reason to be emerged as a potential technology (i.e. Mobile Cloud Computing) for mobile services. It overcomes obstacles related to the performance in mobile environment, guaranteed for the availability of resources, assures security, provide intelligent services, transforming the internet computing infrastructure, and broad network access to mobile users. This technology brings innovation in terms of resources and changed the functional architecture of resources-limited device to resources-rich environment. Intensive mobile users need to process high performance computing applications when they are on move, which is most desirable for their professional assignments; they need the service technology always-on. Our research contribution in this paper is to investigate the mobile cloud technology infrastructure, various service frame-works, service models that exist, benefits of mobile cloud, threats and challenges, future approach, and to find services offering by the technology for all types of mobile cloud users.