Eti Microproject
Eti Microproject
Eti Microproject
Thergaon Pune-33
Sixth Semester
(Year: 2021-22)
Micro Project
Emerging trends in IT (22618)
Title of the Project: Mobile Phones and Cloud Computing
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INTRODUCTION
Cloud computing is a hot topic in various media, and it is stated that it has the potential to
transform large parts of the IT industry (Armbrust, Fox, Griffith, Joseph, Katz, Konwinski, Lee,
Patterson, Rabkin, Stoica & Zaharia, 2009). Others claim that it is only a buzzword and that the
technology has been around for years, for example in the form of grid computing and computing
as a utility (Reese, 2009; Rittinghouse & Ransome, 2010). It is said to be just another attempt to
market and pack existing technology in a new way (Krishnan, 2010). There is also a lot of
confusion on what the term actually means or includes (Rittinghouse & Ransome, 2010;
Armbrust et al, 2009) which is not surprising when the term covers a remarkably wide area.
However, the critique is mainly directed towards to the term itself and many claims that the idea
of cloud computing is here to stay, that there is great potential in the technology (Chow, Golle,
Jakobsson, Masuoka, Molina, Shi & Staddon, 2009; Krishnan, 2010; Reese 2009; Rittinghouse
& Ransome, 2010). The mobile phone is the new personal computer (Allen, Graupera &
Lundrigan, 2010) and its functionality is continually increasing (Carroll & Heiser, 2010). Mobile
phones are increasingly used for web browsing, email and multimedia, to mention a few areas
(Nurminen, 2010). However, the portability and small size of the device has its limitations when
it comes, for example, to battery life (Miettinen & Nurminen, 2010; Othman & Hailes, 1998;
Palmer, Kemp, Kielmann & Bal, 2009) and computational performance. Cloud computing has
been suggested to improve mobile phones in various ways, but two common areas are battery life
extension and computational offloading (Kumar & Lu, 2010). The aim of this thesis is to
investigate if the cloud can be used to execute mobile phone application functions faster by
offloading the task to the cloud, in comparison to execute the function on the mobile phone. The
collaboration advantages, and disadvantages, with mobile phones and cloud computing will also
be investigated as well as if different phones models with different network connections are more
or less suitable for offloading.
DESCRIPTION
“Mobile phones are set to become the universal interface to online services and cloud
computing applications” (Giurgui et al., 2009). Generally mobile phone applications run
locally on the mobile phone. This means that the application is downloaded and then
executed on the mobile phone. The application might interact with servers on the Internet to
get information that the application need, but the computation and processing of data is
mainly performed on the mobile phone, which has its limitations when it comes to mobile
phone hardware as previously mentioned. A cloud computing mobile phone application can
be downloaded in the same way as a local mobile phone application but would execute on a
server instead of on the mobile phone. The application would function as a communicator
with the cloud server which function would be to display the data received by it. Another
approach is to access the application through the mobile phone’s web browser. For example
Google Docs that is a word processor accessed through a web browser (Google Docs, 2012).
In this case there is no need to download any application, the application is available directly
through the web browser. A third alternative is a hybrid mobile phone application that partly
operates in the cloud and partly on the mobile phone. For example a mobile phone
application that runs on the mobile phone but files generated are saved in the cloud. Chen,
Kang, Kandemir, Vijaykrishnan, Irwin & Chandramouli and Miettinen & Nurminen describe
how mobile phone applications could offload computational tasks to the cloud if the
condition for doing so would be beneficial (Chen et al., 2004; Miettinen & Nurminen, 2010).
Applications that save data, generated by it, in the cloud are another example. Pictures, game
scores, phone contacts etcetera could all be saved in the cloud to make them available to
other devices. This is a development trend that might become more and more common while
mobile phone manufacturers tries to integrated mobile phones with other devices they are
manufacturing, for example Google TV (Google TV, 2012)
Application
Here are some specific advantages generated by applications designed under mobile
cloud computing architecture:
Nowadays, Cloud Computing is moving is big steps towards becoming the most popular
and the most used technology, either in the organizational context, or smaller units. Considering
this, and also considering that mobile technology is another useful technology that provides
flexibility, compactness and portability, the big players in the IT industry are really focused in
generating as optimal as possible solutions that will fit for mobile devices also.
The research done in this paper is trying to illustrate the latest trends in the IT
industry, by providing information from different resources.
Considering the tables, assumptions and everything mentioned in this paper, seems that Mobile
Cloud Computing will soon take the lead as the most trendy technology to pay attention to.
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