Mobile Cloud Computing: Models, Implementation, and Security provides a comprehensive introduction to mobile cloud computing, including key concepts, models, and relevant applications. The book focuses on novel and advanced algorithms, as well as mobile app development.
The book begins with an overview of mobile cloud computing concepts, models, and service deployments, as well as specific cloud service models. It continues with the basic mechanisms and principles of mobile computing, as well as virtualization techniques. The book also introduces mobile cloud computing architecture, design, key techniques, and challenges.
The second part of the book covers optimizations of data processing and storage in mobile clouds, including performance and green clouds. The crucial optimization algorithm in mobile cloud computing is also explored, along with big data and service computing.
Security issues in mobile cloud computing are covered in-depth, including a brief introduction to security and privacy issues and threats, as well as privacy protection techniques in mobile systems. The last part of the book features the integration of service-oriented architecture with mobile cloud computing. It discusses web service specifications related to implementations of mobile cloud computing.
The book not only presents critical concepts in mobile cloud systems, but also drives readers to deeper research, through open discussion questions. Practical case studies are also included. Suitable for graduate students and professionals, this book provides a detailed and timely overview of mobile cloud computing for a broad range of readers.
Part I: Basic Concepts and Mechanisms of Mobile Cloud Computing
Chapter 1: Overview of Cloud Computing
Chapter 2: Specific Cloud Service Models
Chapter 3: Basic Mechanisms and Principles of Mobile Cloud Computing
Chapter 4: MCC Architecture Design, Key Techniques, and Challenges
Part II: Optimizations of Data Processing and Storage in Mobile Clouds
Chapter 5: Basic Optimizations: A Perspective of Cloud Computing Performance
Chapter 6: Preemptable Algorithm Execution in Mobile Cloud Systems
Chapter 7: Big Data and Service Computing in Cloud Computing
Part III: Security Issues and Solutions in Mobile Cloud Systems
Chapter 8: Security and Privacy Issues and Threats in MCC
Chapter 9: Privacy Protection Techniques in Mobile Cloud Computing
Part IV: Integrating Service-Oriented Architecture with Mobile Cloud Computing
Chapter 10: Web Services in Cloud Computing
Part V: Appendices
Appendix A: Sample of A Course Project
Appendix B: Sample of Exam Sheet
Appendix C: Simulator Tool Sample Codes
