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Form of cloud computing

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the combination of cloud computing and mobile computing to bring rich computational resources to mobile users, network operators, as well as cloud computing providers. The ultimate goal of MCC is to enable execution of rich mobile applications on a plethora of mobile devices, with a rich user experience. MCC provides business opportunities for mobile network operators as well as cloud providers. More comprehensively, MCC can be defined as "a rich mobile computing technology that leverages unified elastic resources of varied clouds and network technologies toward unrestricted functionality, storage, and mobility to serve a multitude of mobile devices anywhere, anytime through the channel of Ethernet or Internet regardless of heterogeneous environments and platforms based on the pay-as-you-use principle." Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Mobile cloud computingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudletInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: 5G Radio Access NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile ComputingCited 3,066 times
  5. Go sideways: Rich Internet ApplicationA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Fog computingA closely related topic

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