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'''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.<ref name="Khan 393–413">{{Cite journal|last1=Khan|first1=A. u R.|last2=Othman|first2=M.|last3=Madani|first3=S. A.|last4=Khan|first4=S. U.|date=2014-01-01|title=A Survey of Mobile Cloud Computing Application Models|journal=IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials|volume=16|issue=1|pages=393–413|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.062613.00160|issn=1553-877X|citeseerx=10.1.1.402.1725|s2cid=3042864}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last=Abolfazli|first=Saeid|author2=Sanaei, Zohreh |author3=Ahmed, Ejaz |author4=Gani, Abdullah |author5= Buyya, Rajkumar |title=Cloud-Based Augmentation for Mobile Devices: Motivation, Taxonomies, and Open Challenges|journal=IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|date=1 July 2013|volume=99|issue=pp|pages=337–368|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.070813.00285|arxiv=1306.4956|bibcode=2013arXiv1306.4956A|s2cid=5322364}}</ref><ref name="mccsurvey">Fangming Liu, Peng Shu, Hai Jin, Linjie Ding, Jie Yu, Di Niu, Bo Li, "[http://grid.hust.edu.cn/fmliu/iwc2013-mcc-fangmingliu.pdf Gearing Resource-Poor Mobile Devices with Powerful Clouds: Architecture, Challenges and Applications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104745/http://grid.hust.edu.cn/fmliu/iwc2013-mcc-fangmingliu.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}", ''IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine'', Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Computing, vol. 20, no. 3, pp.14-22, June, 2013.</ref> The ultimate goal of MCC is to enable execution of [[rich mobile application]]s on a plethora of mobile devices, with a rich user experience.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Abolfazli|first=Saeid|author2=Sanaei, Zohreh |author3=Gani, Abdullah |author4=Xia, Feng |author5= Yang, Laurence T. |title=Rich Mobile Applications: Genesis, taxonomy, and open issues|journal=Journal of Network and Computer Applications|date=1 September 2013|doi=10.1016/j.jnca.2013.09.009 |volume=40 |pages=345–362}}</ref> MCC provides business opportunities for mobile network operators as well as cloud providers.<ref name="Khan 42–49">{{Cite journal|last1=Khan|first1=A. u R.|last2=Othman|first2=M.|last3=Xia|first3=F.|last4=Khan|first4=A. N.|date=2015-05-01|title=Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing and Its Challenges|journal=IEEE Cloud Computing|volume=2|issue=3|pages=42–49|doi=10.1109/MCC.2015.62|s2cid=16019778|issn=2325-6095}}</ref><ref name="definition">{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/wcm.1203 | volume=13 | issue=18 | title=A survey of mobile cloud computing: architecture, applications, and approaches | journal=Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing | pages=1587–1611 | last1 = Dinh | first1 = Hoang T.| year=2013 | doi-access=free }}</ref> 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|pay-as-you-use]] principle."<ref name="Sanaei 2013 1–24">{{cite journal|last=Sanaei|first=Zohreh|author2=Abolfazli, Saeid |author3=Gani, Abdullah |author4= Buyya, Rajkumar |title=Heterogeneity in Mobile Cloud Computing: Taxonomy and Open Challenges|journal=IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|date=1 January 2013|volume=16 |issue=99|pages=1–24369–392|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.050113.00090porn00090|s2cid=8751555 |url=http://www.buyya.com/papers/MobileCloud-Taxonomy.pdf|doi-broken-date=28 February 2022}}</ref>

==Architecture==

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* Mobile & Cloud Lab,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mobile and Cloud Computing Laboratory (Mobile & Cloud Lab)|url=http://mc.cs.ut.ee|publisher=University of Tartu}}</ref> Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu. Mobile & Cloud Lab conducts research and teaching in the mobile computing and cloud computing domains. The research topics of the group include cloud computing, mobile application development, mobile cloud, mobile web services and migrating scientific computing and enterprise applications to the cloud.

* SmartLab,<ref>{{cite web|title=SmartLab Smartphone Programming Cloud Testbed|url=http://smartlab.cs.ucy.ac.cy/|publisher=University of Cyprus}}</ref> Data Management Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. SmartLab is a first-of-a-kind open cloud of smartphones that enables a new line of systems-oriented mobile computing research.

* Mobile Cloud Networking:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu/site/|title=MCN|last=http://www.onesource.pt|first=OneSource|website=www.mobile-cloud-networking.eu|language=en|access-date=2017-09-06}}</ref> Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) was an EU FP7 Large-scale Integrating Project (IP, 15m Euro) funded by the European Commission. The MCN project was launched in November 2012 for the period of 36 month. The project was coordinated by SAP Research and the ICCLab<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab|title=Home|work=Service Engineering (ICCLab & SPLab)|access-date=2017-09-06|language=en-US}}</ref> at the Zurich University of Applied Science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zhaw.ch|title=Willkommen an der ZHAW {{!}} ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften|website=ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften|language=de-DE|access-date=2017-09-06}}</ref> In total 19 top-tier partners from industry and academia established the very first vision of Mobile Cloud Computing. The project was primarily motivated by an ongoing transformation that drives the convergence between the Mobile Communications and Cloud Computing industry enabled by the Internet and is considered the very first pioneer in the area of [[Network function virtualization|Network Function Virtualization.]]

==See also==

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==References==

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