Advantages And Challenges Of Mobile Cloud Computing

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Mobile devices have become an integral part of human-life in their day-to-day activities. According to recent studies it was mentioned that Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) will be incorporated by most of the corporate and tele-communication sectors to meet their business requirements effectively. In MCC, the mobile devices will interact with the cloud across a network for providing required information to the user. Mobile devices can be any of smart phones, PDA’s, laptops, Tablet PC’s etc… Cloud can be defined as a data storage area where the data can be stored. This article provides overview of Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing, Challenges in MCC and Research areas in MCC. Keywords:
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Introduction to Mobile Cloud Computing :
The combination of both mobile computing and cloud computing can be termed as mobile cloud computing. Mobile cloud computing technology can be inherent from the cloud computing technology. Due to the increase in number of mobile devices such as smart phones, PDA’s, laptops, tablet PC’s the mobile cloud computing technology is proving to be one of the most potential and efficient technology in the near future. In this section we will see in brief about mobile computing, cloud computing and mobile cloud computing.

1.1. Mobile Computing:
The computation performed on mobile devices is referred to as Mobile Computing [1]. Mobile computing involves mobile communication [2], mobile hardware, and mobile software. Communication is among various adhoc mobile devices in a network which includes certain properties, operations and protocols. Mobile hardware is collection of various mobile devices with in a network. Mobile software includes characteristics and requirements of mobile applications.

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c) Resource pooling: The examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth. By using multi tenancy model the service providers can provide services based on customer demands irrespective of different physical and virtual resources which were assigned and reassigned dynamically.
d) Rapid Elasticity: It must support this characteristic as the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time based on the consumer needs.
e) Measured service: It can be termed as pay-as-you-go pricing model based on metered by performance.
B. Deployment Models in Cloud Computing:
The deployment models in Cloud Computing describes who owns, manages and responsible for the services. These can be categorized mainly into four types which are as follows,
a) Public Cloud: In this type of model the services and applications were provided by the service providers to the public across the network by an organization. It is also termed as External cloud. It is less secure. Examples include Amazon Web services (AWS) and Microsoft

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