Mobile Cloud Computing as Mobile offloading Solution: Frameworks, Focus and Implementation Challenges

Abstract

Mobile devices have been operating under limited resource capacity including memory, processing speed, storage and battery life. Due to the advancement of technology, complex applications have been designed and implemented, and these application demand computing device with high capacity. Cloud computing emerged as solution for computing device with limited capacity. However, integrating mobile operating environment with cloud computing has been a challenge due to dynamicity of mobile device environment including unreliability of wireless communication. This paper reviews recent studies in Mobile Cloud Computing to assess its implementation as one of task offloading solution for mobile device. The study reviewed common framework that are used to implement Mobile Cloud Computing, the focus of the current studies and finally highlighted open issues that need to be addressed when implementing optimal Mobile Cloud Computing.

Keywords: Mobile Cloud Computing, task offloading, Mobile device, cloudlet

DOI: 10.7176/CEIS/11-5-04

Publication date:September 30th 2020