A Survey of Challenging Issues and Approaches in Mobile Cloud Computing

Recently, the exploitation of cloud resources for augmenting mobile devices leads to the emergence of a new research area called Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). In this work, we present a survey and taxonomy for MCC architecture, characteristics, and open research issues aim to explore deep research in this area. We present a taxonomy based on the key issues while highlighting the specific concerns in MCC, and discuss related approaches taken to tackle these issues. Furthermore, the direction for future work is discussed.