Cloud Computing Etat de l'art

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING: THE STATE-OF-THE-ART, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE RESEARCH:

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the state-of-the-art distributed mobile computing
technology that is recently gaining ground to augment computational capabilities of resourceconstraint mobile devices using cloud-based resources. MCC employs Cloud-based Mobile
Augmentation (CMA) approaches to efficiently execute resource-intensive components of mobile
applications outside the device in a resource-rich cloud-based computing resource(s). However,
employing CMA approaches is not a straightforward panacea and is encumbered by varied
challenges, particularly long WAN latency. Researchers endeavored to mitigate the impacts of
long WAN (Wide Area Network) latency by proposing varied architectures for MCC. In this
chapter, we present comprehensive overview of MCC, present its definition, motivation, and
taxonomy of MCC building blocks followed by brief comparison of cloud computing and MCC.
Various MCC architectures are illustrated and scrutinized. Also several open challenges that
require future research are presented.