Research On Mobile Cloud Computing: Review, Trend, And Perspectives

TL;DR

This paper reviews the development, characteristics, challenges, and future research directions of Mobile Cloud Computing, highlighting its potential and current limitations in integrating mobile and cloud technologies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of MCC's background, recent research, and future trends, offering insights into its infrastructure and challenges for guiding future studies.

Findings

Identifies key challenges in MCC implementation

Summarizes recent research projects in MCC

Suggests promising future research directions

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) which combines mobile computing and cloud computing, has become one of the industry buzz words and a major discussion thread in the IT world since 2009. As MCC is still at the early stage of development, it is necessary to grasp a thorough understanding of the technology in order to point out the direction of future research. With the latter aim, this paper presents a review on the background and principle of MCC, characteristics, recent research work, and future research trends. A brief account on the background of MCC: from mobile computing to cloud computing is presented and then followed with a discussion on characteristics and recent research work. It then analyses the features and infrastructure of mobile cloud computing. The rest of the paper analyses the challenges of mobile cloud computing, summary of some research projects related to this area, and points out promising future research directions.