Author Name
Kiran Patidar, Priti Maheshwary, Dr.Piyush Kumar Shukla, Anand Motwani
Abstract
Together with massive growth of mobile devices, social network applications and emerging field of Cloud Computing (CC), Mobile Social Cloud Computing (MSCC) has been introduced to be a potential domain for researchers in technology for mobile services. This paper examines the current state of the art in the fusion of these popular technologies, which we refer to as Mobile Social Cloud Computing (MSCC). Mobile computing enables social networking services needed irrespective of user movement, hence supporting location independence. Indeed, ‘mobility’ is one of the characteristics of a pervasive computing environment where the user is able to continue his/her work seamlessly regardless of his/her movement. The paper also presents a survey of MSCC, which facilitates reader, have an overview of the MSCC including Definition, Architecture and Applications. We discuss a taxonomy based on the key challenges in this area and different approaches to handle these issues. The need and importance o