Mobile Networks and Cloud Computing Convergence for Progressive Services and Applications
Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, Kai Lin, Jaime Lloret · Advances in wireless technologies and telecommunication book series · 2013
Mobile devices have gained great importance in the daily lives of people.Smartphones and tablet com¬ puters make people's lives easier by being more useful and offering more capabilities and services for a plethora of activities.Those devices include various sensing modules for collecting location information related to navigation, gravity, and orientation, which bring a diversity and intelligent ubiquitous mobile experience to users.In this chapter, cloud computing and mobile cloud computing are addressed in or¬ der to give insight about the topic and offer an important overview for this book.The diverse research definitions of these emerging technologies and contributions to enhance users' lives are considered.Furthermore, the technologies and identified advantages to improve and justify the strong use of mobile cloud are discussed.Relevant mobile cloud computing applications are presented, showing good results and a promising future for mobile cloud computing technologies.