{"title":"Integrating Cloud Computing with Next-Generation Telematics for Energy Sustainability in Vehicular Networks","authors":"M. Liotine","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74460","url":null,"abstract":"This research focuses on new approaches to enhance the economic viability of newer hybrid/electric vehicle technology utilizing a telematic and cloud computing framework. First, an economic foundation is proposed that rewards drivers for energy efficient driver behavior in units of energy based on a predefined standard. Next, a service model is presented that allows drivers to transfer information regarding their energy efficiency through a telematic and cloud computing network. Based on existing cloud computing technology and telematic standards, a network architecture is proposed to transfer this information to service integrators and content providers that can use this information to create vehicle energy resource management capabilities for vehicle users and fleet own - ers. Such an architecture would enable drivers or fleet owners to redeem energy units for monetary or promotional incentives, thereby realizing more economic value for the vehicle investment.","PeriodicalId":136436,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Computing - Technology and Applications","volume":"os-34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127776882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amr S. Abdelfattah, T. Abdelkader, EI-Sayed M. EI-Horbaty
{"title":"Reliable Web Service Consumption Through Mobile Cloud Computing","authors":"Amr S. Abdelfattah, T. Abdelkader, EI-Sayed M. EI-Horbaty","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74461","url":null,"abstract":"The mobile intermittent wireless connectivity limits the evolution of the mobile land - scape. Achieving web service reliability results in low communication overhead and cor rect retrieval of the appropriate state response. In this chapter, we discuss and analyze two approaches based on middleware approach, Reliable Service Architecture using Middleware (RSAM), and Reliable Approach using Middleware and WebSocket (RAMWS). These approaches achieve the reliability of web services consumed by mobile devices and propose an enhanced architecture that achieves the reliability under various conditions with minimum communication data overhead. In these experiments, we covered several cases to prove the achievement of reliability. Results also show that the request size was found to be constant, the response size is identical to the traditional architecture, and the increase in the consumption time was less than 5% with the different response sizes.","PeriodicalId":136436,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Computing - Technology and Applications","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133480772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taxonomy of Cloud Lock-in Challenges","authors":"Justice Opara-Martins","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.74459","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews key concepts and terminologies needed for understanding the com- plexity of the vendor lock-in problem being investigated in this book. Firstly, we present aspects of cloud computing that contribute to vendor lock-in and briefly introduce existing results from cloud-related areas of computer science that contributes to understanding and tackling vendor lock-in. Secondly, we explore the literature on proprietary lock-in risks in cloud computing environments to identify its causes (i.e., restrictions), consequences, miti-gations strategies, and related challenges faced by enterprise consumers migrating to cloud- based services. Then, we propose taxonomy of cloud lock-in perspectives based on reports of real experiences on migration to understand the overall cloud SaaS migration challenges. Finally, we narrow down to our perspective on cloud lock-in to three main perspectives which takes the use of sound techniques from IS research discipline and cloud-related literature into consideration, to improve the portability, security and interoperability of cloud (and on-premise) applications in hybrid environments. Collectively, the discussions presented herein, accordingly enables both academia and IT practitioners in the cloud computing community to get an overarching view of the process of combating application and data lock-in challenges, and security risks in the cloud.","PeriodicalId":136436,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Computing - Technology and Applications","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122927784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Liu, Ziyou Gao, B. Jia, Xuedong Yan, D. Janssens, GeertWets
{"title":"Validating Activity-Based Travel Demand Models Using Mobile Phone Data","authors":"Feng Liu, Ziyou Gao, B. Jia, Xuedong Yan, D. Janssens, GeertWets","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.75810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.75810","url":null,"abstract":"Activity-based travel demand models predict travel sequences on a day for each indi- vidual in a study region. These sequences serve as important input for travel demand estimate and forecast in the area. However, a reliable method to evaluate the generated sequences has been lacking, hampering further development and application of the models. In this chapter, we use travel behavioral information inferred from mobile phone data for such validation purposes. Our method is composed of three major steps. First, locations where a user made calls on a day are extracted from his/her mobile phone records, and these locations form a location trajectory. All the trajectories from the user across multiple days are then transformed into actual travel sequences. The sequences derived from all phone users are further classified into typical patterns which, along with their relative frequencies, define travel profiles. These profiles char- acterize current travel behavior in the study region and can thus be utilized for assessing sequences generated from activity-based models. By comparing the obtained profiles with statistics drawn from conventional travel surveys, the validation potential of the proposed method is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":136436,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Computing - Technology and Applications","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115321803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tien-Dung Nguyen, Yunkon Kim, Xuan-Qui Pham, Tri D. T. Nguyen, E. Huh
{"title":"Mobile Services Meet Distributed Cloud: Benefits, Applications, and Challenges","authors":"Tien-Dung Nguyen, Yunkon Kim, Xuan-Qui Pham, Tri D. T. Nguyen, E. Huh","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.75818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.75818","url":null,"abstract":"As the explosive growth of smart devices and enormous new applications, the variety of corresponding cloud services has been growing quickly. The conventional centralized cloud was faced with an overhead on backhaul links and high latency. Accordingly, a decentralized cloud paradigm including edge computing, mobile edge computing, cloudlet, and so on, was introduced to distribute cloud services to the edge network which located in proximity to mobile devices few years ago. However, this paradigm was not paid attention at that time since cloud technology and mobile network commu - nication were immature to motivate mobile services. Recently, with the overwhelming growth of mobile communication technology and cloud technology, distributed cloud is emerging as a paradigm well equipped with technologies to support a broad range of mobile services. The 5G mobile communication technology provides high-speed data and low latency. Cloud services can be automatically deployed in the edge networks quickly and easily. Distributed cloud can prove itself to bring many benefits for mobile service such as reducing network latency, as well as computational and network overhead at the central cloud. Besides, we present some applications to emphasize the neces- sity of distributed cloud for mobile service and discuss further technical challenges in distributed cloud.","PeriodicalId":136436,"journal":{"name":"Mobile Computing - Technology and Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129489804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}