An interactive city framework: Mobile Cloud Computing approach

Abstract

This paper presents a mobile augmented reality framework for an interactive three-dimensional city. One of the challenging issues in the design of mobile scalable augmented reality systems is the limitation of computational power. The proposed framework provides a scalable, service-based and open source approach to integrate the real and virtual scene. The key strength of the proposed framework is adopting an emerging and challenging approach: Mobile Cloud Computing. The main advantage of this approach is reducing mobile constraints: limited battery life and limited memory size. The paper focus on the proposed framework architecture and rationale behind designing its infrastructure to provide interactivity and scalability features.