Mobile Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a location-independent computing which helps in providing resources to client on an on-demand basis through the web service interface where customers do not own the physical infrastructure, they use resources as a service and pay only for resources that they use. This technology allows much more professional computing by centralizing bandwidth, processing, memory and storage. To use this cloud computing you don’t need any application or server. 

 

Mobile cloud   computing   is  a   type  of  cloud   computing   in  which    use    some   of   the   mobiles devices  to  providing the  services. Mobile  devices  have  many  constraints because of  the  smaller  sizes, lower   weights,  longer   battery   life   and   other  features. These  constraints  cause  inflexibility  in  hardware  and   software   development  for  these  devices. Cloud computing can be used to allow the  mobile  devices  to  avoid  above  constraints  by  making  the resource intensive tasks and all the complex functions to be performed in the cloud rather than on mobile and having the end results sent to the  device and displayed in the screen. This enables the Mobile  Cloud  Computing  to  be  a  very efficient and effective way to develop robust applications in any sector. The end user will benefit, as  they  can  share  resources  and  applications  without  high capital expenditure  on   hardware   and software  resources. The  end  users  can easily  run  the  applications  from  the  mobile without  any costly hardware to run applications as the operations are run within the cloud.

Mobile cloud computing is also beneficial for many parties. Developers will have access to a much wider market, they can easily avoid the restrictions created by mobile operating systems and there will be no compatibility issues. Building applications for one cloud platform and deploy it to hundreds of different handsets with different configurations become cheaper. However, the network latency and bandwidth are the major issue faced by the mobile cloud computing. Since, a cloud application requires a stable internet connection. But, as new technologies like HTML5 are coming to the mobile phones, there are high chances that this problem will be vanished. Mobile cloud computing will make future mobile phones more sophisticated. It will allow users to store their data in the cloud where these data will be accessible to them whenever they need.