Security in Mobile Cloud Computing Abstract: Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has become another one of the important research fields, with the development of cloud computing and mobility. It offers infrastructure, platform and user services on cloud to the mobile device users through the mobile network, through its on-demand services, and extendability features. Being an emerging important research field and the platform for user data, security and privacy are the key issues in MCC applications, facing serious challenges. A whole lot of investigations and research is carried out to scale down these issues. This paper discusses these issues in depth and the current security mechanisms along with the ongoing works for their betterment. …show more content…
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC): MCC Architecture The figure below shows the basic model of the mobile cloud computing. The cell phones are joined with the mobile systems through base stations (e.g., base station, access point, or satellite) that establish and control the associations and practical interfaces between the systems and cell phones. Mobile clients’ requests and data (e.g., ID and area) are transmitted to the central processors that are associated with servers giving mobile system services. Here, mobile system administrators can give services to mobile clients as authentication, authorization, and bookkeeping focused around the home agents and subscribers’ information stored in databases. After that, the subscribers’ requests are conveyed to a cloud through the Internet. In the cloud, cloud controllers service these requests to furnish mobile clients with the corresponding cloud services. These services are developed with the ideas of utility processing, virtualization, and service-oriented architecture (e.g., web, application, and database servers). Advantages: Mobile devices are very much constrained in terms of storage, battery life and computational abilities. Mobile cloud computing comes in handy, to resolve these problems. It offers numerous advantages to the end-users on personal and business-level.
This research paper clearly explains the concepts of what is cloud computing and its evolution and components of clouds in which it categorizes. Models are included in the cloud computing these are also explained in the paper and also more benefits occurs in cloud computing. Security is very important when the sensitive data is lying in cloud and the risks to the cloud are enormous. The important points to be considered when a corporate organization is planning to move its data and applications to the cloud computing are Restricted user access, Regulatory compliance, Data Position, Data Separation, Recovery, Support, Long-term viability. Some Future aspects are also discussed in order to manipulate the present environment.
In M. Amoretti et al framework [41], the main pillar is the autonomic strategy consisting of adaptive loops between each cell phones and the Cloud. The proposed model of the mobile device takes into account online estimations of the actual Cloud performance, but also the characteristics of the workload, to adjust its configuration in terms of active virtual machines and task management strategies. A simulator of the MCC model has been implemented. The simulator is based on the DEUS , the open source Java-based discrete event simulation platform.
Cloud computing is an emerging model where users can gain access to their applications from anywhere through their connected devices. A simplified user interface makes the infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively-scalable data centers where compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. A strong service management platform results in near-zero incremental management costs when more IT resources are added to the cloud. The proliferation of smart mobile devices, high speed wireless connectivity, and rich browser-based Web 2.0 interfaces has made the network-based cloud computing model not only practical but
Cloud and mobile technologies can create an environment to secure, retrieve, and allow access to critical information regardless of location. To implement this technology, you must first have the proper infrastructure in place to support its success. Although this could present
Every person today uses an Internet-enabled mobile device. Majority of the applications running on mobile devices transfer their data to cloud servers for processing. The advancements in cloud technology allow applications to reduce data processing on mobile devices.
Thesis; Along with the efficiency mobile devices render, come along its risks, in which raises substantial security and privacy concerns. It’s important to be aware of the possible threats a mobile can have, along with knowing what and how to secure information, as well as trying to prevent threats from happening.
Mobile Cloud Computing which helps Mobile preparing and circulated registering, has ended up being one of the business in vogue articulations and an important exchange string in the IT world since 2010. As Mobile Cloud Computing is still toward the starting time of progression, it is critical to understand a thorough perception of the advancement with a true objective to point out the heading of future ask about. With the last point, this paper demonstrates a review on the establishment and manage of Mobile Cloud Computing, characteristics, later investigate work, and future research designs. A short record on the establishment of Mobile Cloud Computing: from versatile figuring to dispersed processing is given and a while later
Cloud computing is a topic of which much is assumed. The average person recognizes the term “cloud computing” as having to do with their storage from their iPad or iPhone on the online storage area which syncs their Apple devices to their computer. This common cloud is called the iCloud. That is where common knowledge ends about this topic. However, upon further exploration, a deeper understanding is gained with greater explanation, and it is realized that cloud computing is something that is used all of the time on many levels of everyday technology. While the terminology remains cryptic to the mind of most people, the concepts behind the practical uses of cloud computing become quite clear. It is relatable and understandable. Upon this revelation, the iCloud is recognized as the tip of the preverbal iceberg when speaking about cloud computing. It is important to discuss and further understand the many types of cloud computing as well as the various applications to life through technology. This affects how information is stored online, computers are protected, information is secured, emails are processed, and many other factors that are taken for granted in the world of technology. Cloud computing is a general term used to describe how information is stored, utilized, and accessed over the internet. There is no cloud, but the word cloud gives the connotation of an abstract place which is known to exist but is too vast to touch or contain (Griffith,
Corporations are finding the value from moving their enterprise systems from on premises to the cloud. There are several reasons for companies to do this; professionals need to be engaged in activities that will drive the company’s business instead of keeping hardware running. Lipsitz (2011), Cloud service providers can provide business ready alternatives more securely, efficiently, and at a better price. IT organizations should be investigating those alternatives and redeploying IT staff to more business critical projects. The concept of anytime, anywhere on any device is no longer a concept, it is a necessity. Many enterprises have employees that work remotely, are mobile and need to get their information on many different devices. The cloud has the correct architecture to deliver services to employees while keeping them productive and enabling them to collaborate on the move. Cloud services also provide scale to allow businesses to resize their services when needed.
In this way, mobile computing has brought some major changes to the internet world; some of them include cloud computing, social media services and e-commerce. Cloud computing is a service through which users can compute data, use applications and save their data online on internet. This stored data and applications can be accessed anywhere anytime. For example, if a user saves some data online in cloud from home desktop and then finds a need to access while being on a trip, it can be easily accessed through mobile phone or laptop just by connecting to internet. Similarly, applications can be used while being mobile.
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the combination of cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing which brings rich computational resources to mobile users as well as cloud computing providers. It is one of the major technology in the IT world since 2009. The main objective is using these techniques of cloud computing for data processing and storage in mobile devices. Due MCC the enterprises and mobile device users have lots of advantages. has. The mobile users have rapidly grown in a very short period of time. These days almost everyone uses a smart phone or similar to a mobile device like an ipad etc. Considering the fact that internet usage has also reached a high usage level, it is anticipated that MCC will play a major role in the IT industry.
In any mobile devices for any application execution has two basic important requirements one are of processing power and other is that memory of that device capable of supporting that corresponding application. Cloud Computing technique provides us this opportunity to execute our applications on servers instead of processing them locally and support us to overcome the handset’s limitation of limited resources to a great extent. And also there will be no requirement for Mobile application programmers‟ to developed many versions of duplicate application. Advances in mobile hardware and software have allowed users to perform various tasks that were only possible on personal computers and specialized devices like digital cameras and GPS navigation systems. But still mobile phones are not capable of running all type of applications on its own without any constraint. . Nowadays Customers prefer improvements in battery life, storage size, weight etc. over computation capability. So to encounter these computation-intensive applications Mobile cloud computing is being introduced. Mobile cloud computing is combination of two well established computing schemes, cloud computing and mobile computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable resources are provided as a virtualized service.
Being one of the largest growing technologies in the world right now, cloud computing is gaining a lot of popularity. Many people and organizations are moving from the traditional computing systems to the cloud computing. Giving so many benefits like low cost, high service availability and data accessibility, cloud computing is helping every organization. But with so many advantages, also come some barriers like security and privacy issue. Cloud security is a very important factor to be ensured both by the cloud provider and user. The paper aims to discuss more on cloud
Abstract - Network developing and Virtualization rising more and more in indoor Environment (POIs) can provide plenty of bandwidth and computing resources. At the same time people are suffering from the mobile device with limited resources. This leads to a novel local cloud computing paradigm in which mobile device can leverage nearby resources to facilitate task execution. Cloud computing is a computing resources such as processing, memory, and storage are not physically pres¬ent at the user’s location.
In contemporary times where, data privacy and security is of utmost importance especially in mobile computing and cloud computing, proposing a privacy solution like 'Mimesis Aegis ' application is a very good effort. The authors of the paper have come up with a mobile application that is a privacy-preserving system which protects the privacy of user data stored in the cloud.