Mobile Cloud Computing
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 13145
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Internet of Things; mobile cloud computing; fog computing; edge computing; intelligent transport systems
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Interests: Internet of Things; fog and edge computing; mobile cloud computing; service-oriented architecture; context-aware computing; workflow management systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In last decade, mobile computing and ubiquitous computing have swiftly evolved from earlier content access to today’s service provisioning. Mobile devices have become smart devices, embedded with numerous mechanisms, including, but are not limited to:
- sensing the users and their surrounding environments,
- interacting with proximal devices to form a collaborative distributed computing group,
- enabling social connectivity,
- hosting embedded Web services to provide data derived from the mobile devices themselves to remote service requesters
Further, by integrating cloud computing technologies with mobile devices, their computational, networking, and storage capabilities can be extended, and be able to support even more promising services to their users. Notably, the integration between mobile and cloud triggered the discipline of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC).
Today, a broad range of applications have applied MCC as a key component. MCC is also somewhat synonymous with Edge Computing and Fog Computing, and can take forms such as integration with the greater Cloud or decentralized as a group of cooperative crowd of devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have utilized MCC to seamlessly integrate mobile sensors/actuators with cloud-centric management systems. Big Data analytics systems have utilized MCC to acquire various data related to people and urban objects. Ambient Assist Living (AAL), aged/eldercare or mobile-health systems have utilized MCC to provide real-time human activities analytics and event detection. Agricultural technology have used IoT to collect data and edge computing solutions provide an important mechanism for efficient processing. MCC has become a core enabler of various information systems, from transport, health to agriculture. However, it also continues to raise many research challenges derived from the dynamic nature of mobile network environments (e.g., connectivity, mobility) and the constraint resources of mobile devices (e.g., hardware limitations, battery life).
This Special Issue aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in mobile cloud computing, including architecture design, emerging technologies, software engineering approaches, adaptation and optimization solutions, novel MCC applications and so forth.
Prof. Dr. Seng W. Loke
Dr. Chii Chang
Dr. Niroshinie Fernando
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mobile/smartphone sensing
- Mobile crowd sensing
- Mobile social network
- Mobile workflow/business-process management
- Mobile Internet of Things
- Mobile fog/edge computing
- Mobile/multi-access edge computing
- Process placement, migration and optimization
- Mobile big data
- Internet of Things and MCC
- MCC for autonomous vehicles, transport, agriculture, health and other domains
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