International contributors present technical and scientific information on various aspects of mobile cloud computing. Section 1 provides an overview of mobile cloud computing and applications in areas such as anomaly detection in cloud environments. Section 2 looks at mobile cloud resource management, discussing topics such as a social-oriented mobile cloud scheme for optimal energy conservation. Section 3 addresses options for content-aware streaming in mobile cloud, with discussion of context-awareness in opportunistic mobile cloud computing, and adaptation of cloud resources and media streaming in mobile cloud networks for media delivery. The last section of the book deals with network and service virtualization, examining ubiquitous and adaptive web-based multimedia communications via the cloud, and a resource prediction engine for efficient multimedia services provision. Chapter key terms and definitions are included.
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