CRC Press Mobile Cloud Computing: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications

Minimize Power Consumption and Enhance User Experience Essential for high-speed fifth-generation mobile networks, mobile cloud computing (MCC) integrates the power of cloud data centers with the portability of mobile computing devices. Mobile Cloud Computing: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications covers the latest technological and architectural advances in MCC. It also shows how MCC is used in health monitoring, gaming, learning, and commerce. The book examines computation within a mobile device; the evolution, architecture, and applications of cloud computing; the integration of mobile computing and cloud computing; offloading strategies that address constraints such as poor battery life; and green technologies to optimize mobile power consumption. It also presents various resource allocation schemes of MCC, the architecture and applications of sensor MCC, the new concept of mobile social cloud, security and privacy issues in MCC, and different types of trust in MCC. In addition, the book explains how to integrate MCC with vehicular networks, compares economic models, and explores the application of MCC to mobile learning, vehicle monitoring, digital forensic analysis, health monitoring, and other areas. The book concludes with a discussion of possible solutions to challenges such as energy efficiency, latency minimization, efficient resource management, billing, and security. Review "… the first complete reference book on mobile cloud computing. … an excellent book that serves not only as a resource for teaching purposes with a clear and detailed view of the various aspects of mobile cloud computing, but also as a complete research reference."―From the Foreword by Professor Rajkumar Buyya, Director of Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne; Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience; and CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd "This book provides an introduction to the emerging computing paradigm of mobile cloud computing. It also enables mobile cloud application engineers and cloud service providers to leverage the appropriate features that can mitigate communication and computation latencies in order to increase the quality of service for mobile cloud users. The discussion on various technological and architectural advancements in mobile cloud computing enables the reader to comprehend the mechanisms in mobile cloud computing. In particular, the highlighted open research challenges provide directions to domain researchers for further investigations and improvements in mobile cloud computing."―From the Foreword by Professor Abdullah Gani, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya About the Author Dr. Debashis De is the head of and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology, and an adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is a senior member of the IEEE and member of the International Union of Radio Science. Dr. De is the author of more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 50 conference papers, two research monographs, and 10 books. His research interests include location and handoff management, mobile cloud computing, traffic forecasting, green mobile networks, and low-power nanodevice designing for mobile applications. He earned a PhD in engineering from Jadavpur University.