Scalable Mobile Computing: From Cloud Computing to Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

In recent years, cloud computing has emerged as a major change in the world of technology, whereby computing workloads are transferred first from local data centers located within companies and organizations to large cloud centers. On the horizon, a new wave of change forces the transition from cloud computing to edge computing, which is located at the borders of networks so that computation is close to the source of the processed data. This is to improve the performance and reliability of applications and services, and reduce the cost of their operation by optimizing the distance of the traveled data. In a mobile environment, we have to ask for the best technology to handle such an environment, whether it be cloud computing or edge computing. This survey will go over several papers varying from cloud computing to mobile edge computing to understand the researchers’ focus. We will see that mobility is a simple phenomenon that will help the emergence of new technologies.