- Program Chairs:
- Jitendra Padhye,
- Z. Morley Mao
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Third Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS 2012). Like the two previous workshops, we strive to become the premium forum for discussing cutting-edge research that combines the ubiquity of the mobile platform with the power of the cloud platform.
Mobile phone applications demand greater resources and improved interactivity for better user experience. Resources in cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google AppEngine are a natural fit to remedy the lack of local resources in mobile devices. Mobile cloud computing refers to an infrastructure where data storage and data processing happen outside of the mobile device to enable a new class of applications previously not possible. Mobile cloud computing is poised to become a disruptive force in the mobile world.
The availability of cloud computing resources on a pay-as-you-go basis, the advances in virtualization, the emergence of LTE and WiMAX, IEEE 802.11n and 60 GHz, and mobile application programming platforms create a new set of rich problems that require re-thinking old issues with a new lens. This year's workshop features several papers that lay out a bold vision for the future of this field. We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking.
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OpenADN: mobile apps on global clouds using software defined networking
In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in mobile applications (apps), most of which need to serve global audiences using cloud based computing facilities. Cloud computing provides unique opportunities for the application service providers (...
Vision: a lightweight computing model for fine-grained cloud computing
Cloud systems differ fundamentally in how they offer and charge for resources. While some systems provide a generic programming abstraction at coarse granularity, e.g., a virtual machine rented by the hour, others offer specialized abstractions with ...
Vision: mClouds - computing on clouds of mobile devices
When we think of mobile cloud computing today, we typically refer to empowering mobile devices - in particular smartphones and tablets - with the capabilities of stationary resources residing in giant data centers. But what happens when these mobile ...
Synchronizing state with strong similarity between local and remote systems
Distributed systems such as a mobile device and its cloud storage have a strongly similar state: they are periodically synchronized, but evolve independently in between the synchronization events, sometimes in a disconnected manner that makes keeping ...
Advancing the state of mobile cloud computing
The capabilities of mobile devices have been improving very quickly in terms of computing power, storage, feature support, and developed applications. However, these mobile applications are still intrinsically limited by a relative lack of bandwidth, ...
Cloudlets: bringing the cloud to the mobile user
Although mobile devices are gaining more and more capabilities (i.e. CPU power, memory, connectivity, ...), they still fall short to execute complex rich media and data analysis applications. Offloading to the cloud is not always a solution, because of ...
PowerVisor: a battery virtualization scheme for smartphones
This paper presents a system called PowerVisor that is aimed at the virtualization of the battery resource of mobile devices across application classes. While other resources in a mobile device are virtualized, no similar sharing mechanism exists for ...
Cloud2Bubble: enhancing quality of experience in mobile cloud computing settings
In recent years the mass adoption of mobile devices and increasingly ubiquitous connectivity have contributed to a radical change in the way people interact with computer systems. Moreover cloud computing infrastructures have paved the way for the ...
VISION: cloud-powered sight for all: showing the cloud what you see
We argue that for computers to do more for us, we need to show the cloud what we see and embrace cloud-powered sight for mobile users. We present sample applications that will be empowered by this vision, discuss why the timing is right to tackle it, ...
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- Proceedings of the third ACM workshop on Mobile cloud computing and services