Impact of Cloud Computing on Mobile Applications

Running head: IMPACT OF CLOUD COMPUTING ON MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Impact of cloud computing on mobile applications
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Discussion on app development for mobile application considering impact of
cloud computing on mobile applications:
Cloud Computing refers to delivery of various computing services like databases, storages,
analytics, networking and much more over the Internet. The mobile cloud computing has merged
with the quick-developing market of cloud computing with ubiquitous Smartphone of today.
As long as the users have access to the Internet, with mobile cloud computing application,
they have ingress to mobile app. Development teams, intended on getting mobile applications on the
current marketplace are depending highly over a variety of technologies based on the cloud. Thus it
leverages cloud computing under mobile applications.
The following essay critically analyzes the effect of cloud computing on mobile applications
from two journal publications. It identifies research questions and describes methodologies. Further,
conclusion is demonstrated along with reflections on this paper.
Cloud computing over mobile applications facilitates quick development and sharing
resources of mobile applications. It has been supporting various development methods and devices.
It also helps in improving reliability with information stored and backed up in a cloud. Here, the
applications utilize a lesser number of device resources since they are supported by the cloud
(Rahimi et al. 2014). Further, mobile devices get connected to services that are delivered over API
architecture. Thus the cloud computing is needed over mobile applications because of its speed and
flexibility. Applications of mobile cloud could be developed and revised faster over cloud services.
They could be provided to various devices with distinct operating systems.
Moreover, cloud computing on mobile applications is relevant to shared devices. Mobile
applications running over cloud has not constrained by storage of devices and processing of

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resources. Thus data-intensive processes could be run over a cloud (Sanaei et al. 2014). Next, it is
useful for data integration. Mobile cloud computing helps users to securely and quickly gather and
assimilate data from different sources. This has been regardless of its location.
Review from first journal article:
Journal title: “Mobile cloud computing: The-state-of-the-art, challenges, and future research”
Author Names: Abolfazli, S.A.E.I.D., Sanaei, Z., Sanaei, M.H., Shojafar, M. and Gani, A.
Date of publication: 2015
Abolfazli et al. (2015) stated that mobile cloud computing can be regarded as state of the art
and distributed technology of mobile computing currently gaining across the current world. This is
for augmenting computational capabilities of resource constraint mobile devices utilizing resources
based on the cloud. It also employs approaches of mobile applications based on cloud external to
devices in resource-rich elements of cloud-based computing.
For receiving a ubiquitous and pervasive environment for cloud computing under mobile
applications, various stages of mobile infrastructure are needed to be accessed. These stages are
responsible for transmission delay and added network latency. Proficiency to deliver applications
and services are required to be enhanced for achieving a goal of access anywhere and all kinds of
devices. Hence, various research questions are identified below.
Questions regarding mobile devices:
1. What can be done with the limited energy source of mobile devices?
2. What is the resource poverty of mobile devices?

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Questions regarding network:
1. What are inherent challenges towards wireless network?
2. What are different network access schemes?
3. How can network latency be reduced?
4. What can be done for lack of quick mobile internet access at every place?
Here, secondary data collection is used through reviewing the journal article that is
mentioned discussed above. Using journal articles over the Internet for aiding research practices has
turned out to be the most effective in the present era. Electronic data collection and Internet
surveying can revolutionize various disciplines permitting easier data collection, huge samples and
this more representative data.
Regarding limited energy sources of mobile devices, more application execution in the cloud
is needed. However, it is not possible to transfer the entire execution of the application entirely to
cloud. As per as resource poverty of mobile devices are concerned, comparison of a desktop with
other mobile devices displays what has been costing feature of mobility to be achieved (Ahmed et al.
2015). Challenges of network complicate design for mobile devices more than fixing cloud
computing. Different network access scenarios with distinct access such as GPRS, 3G, WLAN,
WiMax and much more could be deployed where each one of them possesses their restrictions,
offerings, policies and schemes (Botta et al. 2016).
Organizations following BYOD or Bring-Your-Own-device policies have been facing
challenges of interoperability. There occurs an assorted admixture of mobile devices such as iPhone,
Android, BlackBerry and so on used by staffs in companies or team of people sharing any network
(Wang, Chen and Wang 2015). Application supported by particular mobile cloud infrastructure can