Review on Mobile Social Cloud Computing

Authors: Kiran Patidar, Priti Maheshwary, Dr.Piyush Kumar Shukla, Anand Motwani

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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 of paradigm is also discussed. Finally, we conclude the survey and outline the future research directions.

Introduction

In the recent years, CC frameworks, such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure and Google AppEngine have become progressively more popular among IT developers and organizational clients. Simultaneously, we have seen an exceptional boost in the usage and deployment of smart phone platforms and social networking applications worldwide. Mobile devices are progressively becoming essential part of one’s life as these are most convenient and effective communication tools these days and not bounded by time and place. The rapid progress of mobile computing (MC) [1] becomes a powerful trend in the development of IT technology as well as commerce and industry fields. Cloud computing (CC) [10] has been extensively accepted as the next generation computing framework. CC offers some use of infrastructure (e.g., servers, storages and networks), platforms (e.g., operating systems and middleware services), and softwares (e.g., ERP application) provided by cloud providers (e.g., Amazon, Salesforce and Google) at low cost. In addition, CC enables users to access on-demand, pay-as-you-use and elastically utilizable resources. As a result, mobile applications can be quickly provisioned and released with just effortless management by service provider. Social Computing is blend of social communication and computational systems. In Social Networking or computing, individual users build relationships online and on real world relationships to communicate with each other. Based on this relationship in the form of SN using SNS, users develop basic level of inherent trust for data and information sharing. Users share media and other files among each other with less or no authentication because users are eager to provide their data to other SN members even through mobile devices. With the explosion of social networking applications and the support of CC for a variety of services for mobile users, Mobile Social Cloud computing (MSCC) is introduced as an integration of Social Networking and CC into the mobile environment.

Conclusion

Recently, the domain of cloud computing and Mobile based Social Networking applications has created a fresh research momentum in expansion of MSCC. The ultimate goal of MSCC is to offer rich mobile computing and communication between cloud end-users through cloud providers regardless of underlying platforms and heterogeneous systems. Several providers have approached consumers with different infrastructures, strategies, and platforms. The differentiation hinders data extraction from various clouds and executing applications. The problems arises due to the inherent problems like resource scarcity, frequent disconnections that are associated with mobility, MSCC is utilizing its full potential by executing tasks or applications not only on the cloud providers but on the resources provided by mobile devices also. The goal of this paper is to discuss in detail the current research that addresses MSCC, inherent issues and research opportunities in the field. MSCC could become the dominant model for in the future, it essentially includes another user requirement such as QoS. QoS based methods, scheduling and efficient fault tolerant models are still requires research attention.