Mobile cloud computing is the combination of mobile computing and cloud computing. It incorporates the cloud computing into the mobile environment. MCC provides a simple and easy infrastructure for mobile applications and services, where both the data storage and the data processing are performed outside the mobile devices and inside the cloud. MCC provides all the cloud services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) which are required for mobile user. MCC provides many applications and services like Mobile commerce, Mobile learning, Mobile healthcare, Mobile gaming etc. Mobile devices can access all the services of the cloud through the internet using MCC. MCC has several advantages for mobile devices like: improving capacity of data storage and processing power, extending battery life, reducing the power consumption of the device, reducing energy consumption of the cloud, improving reliability, scalability, simplicity of integration, on demand service, disaster management etc. Smart phone and tablets are the most useful platform of mobile cloud computing. Smart phones are made by Blakberry, Nokia, Samsung, Google and they use different operating systems like Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry operating system, the Windows™ Mobile® operating system, Nokia's Symbian platform, and UNIX variations such as Google Android and Apple iOS to support MCC. Apple iPad and Android tablets made by Samsung, Motorola, and Acer. IBM predicts that by 2015, there will be 1 trillion cloud-ready devices. The 4G technology is the most useful enable technology to improving bandwidth and network latency of Mobile Cloud Computing. HTML5and CSS3 can improve the mobile web applications and allows specification of offline support, which makes local storage possible, helping with connectivity interruptions. Web-4.0 is also used for internet application .Another enabler for cross-platform applications is an embedded hypervisor, which allows a web application to run on any smart phone without concern of the essential architecture. Cloudlet is a device, can be used in MCC for improving the network latency.
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Trusted Cloud- and Femtocell-Based Biometric Authentication for Mobile Networks
Debashis De (West Bengal University of Technology, India), Anwesha Mukherjee (West Bengal University of Technology, India), Srimoyee Bhattacherjee (West Bengal University of Technology, India), and Payel Gupta (West Bengal University of Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6559-0.ch015
Abstract
Authentication procedures are conducted in order to control and stop illegitimate access of such valuable data. This chapter discusses the biometric authentication inside the cloud. The authors describe how biometric information of a user can be securely transmitted and then stored inside the user database maintained in the trusted cloud. Femtocell, a recent development in mobile network using which secures biometric data transmission from the mobile device to the cloud, is discussed in this chapter.