Levering mobile cloud computing for mobile big data analytics

Abstract

Mobile devices are becoming an indispensable tool for daily life and a considerable number of services are delivered via mobile devices. However, the capacity of mobile devices is constrained for complex interactive and computationally intensive applications (such as Siri on iOS), and therefore, cloud computing is needed to improve user experience. This results in mobile cloud computing. In this chapter, we first review the architectures of popular cloud computing platforms used in enterprise level application scenarios, then we present the requirements and challenges of cloud computing enabled service oriented intelligent mobile applications. After analyzing those challenges on both client side and cloud architecture, we propose the cloud computing architecture for mobile big data analytics and present several application cases.