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'''Mobile Cloud Computing''' (MCC) is the combination of [[cloud computing]], [[mobile computing]] and [[wireless network]]s to bring rich computational resources to mobile users, network operators, as well as cloud computing providers.<ref name="Khan 393–413">{{Cite journal|last=Khan|first=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|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6553297/|journal=IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials|volume=16|issue=1|pages=393–413|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.062613.00160|issn=1553-877X}}</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=1–32|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.070813.00285}}</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]";, ''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|last=Khan|first=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|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7158968/|journal=IEEE Cloud Computing|volume=2|issue=3|pages=42–49|doi=10.1109/MCC.2015.62|issn=2325-6095}}</ref><ref name="definition">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/{{cite journal|doi/=10.1002/wcm.1203/abstract?systemMessage | volume=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+on+26+May+from+10%3A00-12%3A00+BST+%2805%3A00-07%3A00+EDT%29+for+essential+maintenance13 | 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.}}</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 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|issue=99|pages=1–24|doi=10.1109/SURV.2013.050113.00090porn|url=http://www.buyya.com/papers/MobileCloud-Taxonomy.pdf}}</ref>

==Architecture==