Title: A smart mobile cloud environment for modelling and simulation of mobile cloud applications

Authors: Manel Gherari; Abdelkrim Amirat; Ridda Laouar; Mourad Oussalah

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, LAMIS Laboratory, University of Tebessa, Tebessa, 12000, Algeria ' Department of Computer Science, LIM Laboratory, University of Souk-Ahras, Souk-Ahras, 41000, Algeria ' Department of Computer Science, LAMIS Laboratory, University of Tebessa, Tebessa, 12000, Algeria ' Department of Computer Science, LINA Laboratory, University of Nantes, Nantes, 44322, France

Abstract: Mobile cloud computing (MCC) has been introduced as an optimal solution to the constrained mobile devices. MCC takes mobile devices to a wholly new level where the latter rely on the cloud to store and process data. Since mobile cloud applications (MC-Apps) encompass more complicated features, they are considered as the next generation of mobile applications. Thereby new challenges arise in their development phase, such as exploiting the concept of mobility and contextual information. This new kind of applications requires new methods, of development, modelling and simulation. Addressing this lack in MCC, we propose in this paper a context-aware-based framework that allows: the description of MC-Apps' architecture with Mobile Cloud Architecture Description Language (MC-ADL); the simulation of MC-Apps' behaviour using mobile cloud simulation toolkit (MC-SIM); and the provision of a context-aware middleware: smart cloud gate (SCG) to ensure contextual configuration of the MC-Apps, and contextual evolution of its architecture.

Keywords: mobile cloud computing; mobile cloud modelling; mobile cloud simulation; context awareness; mobile cloud middleware.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2017.086724

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2017 Vol.9 No.5, pp.426 - 443

Received: 02 Sep 2015
Accepted: 18 Feb 2016

Published online: 24 Sep 2017 *

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