Mobile Cloud Storage and Cloud-based Transaction System Research Proposal 2022

Mobile Cloud Storage and Cloud-based Transaction S
A research proposal
1. Rokan Uddin Student ID: 5853461
2. Aisha Siddiqa Student ID: 6356072
3. Ritu Rani Student ID: 6457514
4. Lovepreet Singh Student ID: 6587112
5. Kashmir Singh Bath Student ID: 6571554
School of Computing and Information Technology
University of Wollongong
7th September 2019

Abstract
Cloud computing is regarded as one of the most popular technological advancements that th
world has accepted.The widespread accepting ofthe cloud services has compelled the scientists
and researchers to find out the most feasible procedure to enhance the cloud computing tec
more, such that they can even be implemented in the mobile atmosphere as well for the tra
forms of the cloud services and also for the several ways by which the cloud computing can
to formulate the transactional systems as well.This is why, the following research is being presente
to find out how the procedures of cloud computing over mobile networks and mobile environ
for transactional systems provides a proper solution or forms several issues in for the users.

Contents
Contents 1
1 Introduction 2
2 Literature review 3
3 Research design and methodology 6
4 Proposed project plan 8
5 Conclusion 10
Bibliography 11
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Chapter 1
Introduction
Cloud computing has become an extremely popular computing technology that has been rel
the computing resources which is based upon the sharing of information without the utility o
of the personaldevices or physicalservers that would be utilized for the handling ofapplications.
Simply stating it, the cloud computing technology is a service that moves the business opera
an organization out of the firewallof the organizations and has implemented the applications,the
storages, and all other services to be accessed with the help of internet (Arpaci; 2016).Therefore, all
these applications and the services are now available over the cyberworld and this is also av
to the accessing through the web.
Various authors have regarded the cloud computing technology to be one ofthe most techno-
logically advanced system,which is being extremely popular given the latest times as well.The
ways by which the cloud computing technology is being accepted and implemented for stora
security purposes,it has bombarded the business and individualuser inclination (Skourletopoulos
et al.;2017).The services have been used and delivered with the help ofthe internet and at the
same time,the service providers use the transaction for the services as the as-needed modelor the
pay-per-use business model.Cloud services on the other hand,has been declared as the services
that are available to a user on demand from the internet when the cloud service providers a
usage (Ren et al.;2015).Following would be a research plan that would be declaring the servic
available to the users in terms of their uses and to find out how the mobile cloud services wo
background of cloud computing.The ways by which the cloud services help in the provision of th
on-premise services to the users to have an effective and scalable access to the applications
be explained well in this particular study with a review of several literatures.There would also be a
detailed plan developed that would state the information that would be required for the cond
of the researches on cloud services and the methodology that would be utilized for the colle
information for the research.
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Chapter 2
Literature review
The conduction of the literature review would begin with the collection of the proper researc
that have been selected as per its relevance to the topic.The papers were assorted as per the findings
they have represented and the ways by which the researches in the papers have been compThese
findings would help to etch out any hidden information that these researches may have not
by any chance or might have not let any attention on (Ceselliet al.;2017).The literature review
would thus present the findings that the authors ofthe selected papers have already put forward,
such that these would help in finding out any cloud computing issues that have been raised
not been researched about when it came to the mobile cloud services.
According to the author (Jararweh et al.; 2016), it was found that the cloud services were
designed for a better conviction for focusing the onto the scalable accessions ofthe applications,
services and resources.The cloud service managers are the ones that would clearly state how t
clarifications would be done for the management of the internet accession from the end of t
service providers.The accessing of the cloud services have become such popular and such wid
that the storage services for the cloud form is available even on the mobile devices on the gThis
is a form of the cloud storage that is mostly dependent on the accession of the cloud compu
storage features over the devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets and other mobile device
et al.; 2015).Just like the traditionalforms ofcloud storage services,the cloud storage services
available on mobiles are also provided by the service providers and the users can have acce
the functions of cloud computing for creating and organizing the data and information accor
the cloud computing models as available as the traditional cloud computing models (van Bilj
van der Merwe; 2018).
Nowadays,the cloud systems are not only used for the sharing and operating the data and
information,but it is also usable for creating the transactionalsystems and services for the users
as well.The wireless communication services have pushed the mobility of the devices as weand
this has also given a rise ofthe mobile devices as similar a push (Gheith et al.;2016).The huge
raise in the demand for the mobile devices have made the scientists and researchers think a
implementing them to be available for the mobile services and for the transaction systems a
According to (Hao et al.; 2018), there are several problems with these services as well.The mobile
cloud services often face numerous issues by which there is a possibility of having numerou
in mobile cloud computing services.One of the most common of them is the low bandwidth that
follows through the MCC services.The radio waves used in mobile phones are limited in accessio
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in comparison to the wired networks.The security and privacy issues are also instigated provide
the difficulty in managing the threats related to mobile services,which also hampers the proper
propagation of the transactional systems (Arpaci et al.; 2015).On the other hand, there are several
ways by which the service availability hampers the services and the alteration of the networ
the user also create distortions since it is a common factor that a user keeps on changing th
availabilities (Arpaci; 2019).Limited sources of energies of the mobile devices is also a general f
of contributing to the issues.The cloud database is also limited in the mobile phones, which cau
several hampering of the cloud transactions as well.
According to the author (Zhou et al.;2015),there is another obligation in the Cloud TPS is
the availability of technical issues when it comes to the mobile services.There can be a number of
technicalissues owing to the less availability of the security sources,the expertise of the hardware
and software systems in the mobile transactions, the operations and organizational issues re
the business levels,the complexity of the application of the Cloud TPS in the mobile servers wit
the presence of different amount of atmosphere to work with and also with the reliability iss
the consumer end,the integrity and the infrastructure issues and the portability issues (Liet al.;
2016).Since,mobile networks and environment is susceptible to random changes of server sp
the transaction system also gets hampered in the process.It has also been identified the matching
of the interphases with the business models are extremely necessary for transaction system
are less traversed a road.
It can also be added to the information gathered from the literatures reviewed that the cl
age services that are available in mobile storages have variant types to be used for the diffe
environments.There are different sources ofthe cloud storage services that have been researche
about for Android operating systems for mobile phones.These applications provide different kinds
of services to the people so that they would not have to think about the carrying of their info
and data depending on any physicaldevice.Instead,it never takes up the spaces in the internal
storage,rather makes it much easier to share and exchange the files and other related inform
The applications of this sort that are related to the cloud storage services also are available
people using Android services and they are also available as application for free.
There is an application developed by Amazon Inc., by the name of Amazon Drive, which h
storage for the information and files in the cloud.The Amazon Drive is available to the Amazon Prime
users, that is the people that use the premium subscription and also the non-Amazon Prime
also availthe services.The only difference being that for the Amazon Prime users,the availability
of 5GB free storage space is already available,whereas the non- Amazon Prime users would have
to avail the service for 12 USD equivalent sum per year.The upgradation to the unlimited storage
spaces can be availed with a payment of 60 USD equivalent sum per year.The application is easy to
use and store data and information, the only difference being the bugs in the app, which is n
to notice.There is another available app providing cloud storage services over the mobile ph
supporting android, called Box.Box is developed is accordance to its parent website box.com, w
is a new entrant in the world of cloud storage.The cloud storage services offered by Box offers no
limits about the types of files that can be stored and managed over the cloud environment a
adds up to the advantages of the system.The login for the customers is available by their persona
account credentials and these are available for free up to 10 GB of storage, whereas for stor
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100 GB, it would require 10 USD equivalent sum per month.For more features designed for business
organizations, the prices can also range from 5 – 15 USD equivalent sum per user.
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Chapter 3
Research design and methodology
The methodology that would be used for this particular research would be described in deta
this particular section.This would provide a greater idea of how the task would be proceeded f
the research continuing with allthe clarified steps and theories for researches along with the pla
of finding out the cloud computing factors and mobile based transaction systems utilizing th
computing factors.This will provide an overview about the entire topic for the possible ways b
which the entire idea of the research can be formulated.This particular chapter would thus focus
onto the fundamental elements by which a research is conducted and all the possible ways
the research conducted in the most successful way possible.There would be several things followed
for the research process as well, that would make sure how the outline of the procedure wou
how the research would follow theoretical procedures and how the research would follow the
philosophy (Mackey and Gass;2015).It would also hold the research procedures and the theorie
to approach the research.Again,the research design,the procedure for the collection of data and
the ethicalconsiderations with the limitations for the continuation of the procedure would also
identified with this particular section.
The research method that would be followed for this particular research based on the cho
topic would be providing a research conduction procedure following the infiltration of variou
of the research procedures which would be adopted for the final conduction of the research
2019).Such would be the theories for the procedures followed that it would include the philo
adopted, procedure for the design of the research and the research approach in the theoreti
as it has been described in various different literary sources.These theoreticalideas would form
the base for the different ways by which the data collection methods would follow and from
different methods,a single one would be chosen such that it would help in feasible data collect
procedure.However, practical application of every theoretical idea has its own limitations and
complications, which would also be considered and defined as per the methods applied.
The concept of research philosophy is considered as the entire idea of dealing with the tore-
search procedure and how the sources of the knowledge would be considered as the proper
for the research conduction.This will also give rise to the collection of data for the research cond
tion. This is because,there is a requirement of having a raised belief that follows the collection
data and its analysis.The research philosophy that would be appropriate for this would be the p
losophy of positivism (Creswell and Poth; 2017).This is because, from the two research philosophie
that has been identified to be used in researches,positivism and interpretivism,positivism would
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be much more appropriate to use,given the entire idea behind the research study.Based on the
chosen topic for the research, it is better that this philosophy is used so that both the apprec
of human perception and scientific perception can be found useful for this.The applications of both
these sources would be satisfying the research objective.
It has been found that there are two kinds of researches that are extremely useful for the
procedures, which are inductive and deductive research approach.The inductive research approach
must be used where the new models and new theories need to be developed.However, in case of the
deductive research approach there is no need to develop or establish a new idea,but the research
work helps in analysing the presence of the researches that have already been conducted in
way that the present conditions about the cloud mobile infiltration and transaction models wbe
clarified and analysed in the research.This is why, as per the theories suggest, deductive approac
will be appropriate for use in this particular research.
The research design that mostly are required to be used in the research phases in academ
field are descriptive research design,exploratory research design and explanatory research desig
(Michclinakis et al.; 2018).Exploratory research design is mostly used in the researches where t
are no aims or objectives have been previously defined at the initiallevels of the research.Mostly
these have to be figured out with the help ofa proper exploration ofthe research topics.The
explanatory research design is applicable to such academic researches where there is a req
the proper understanding of the pre-established research aims and objectives as they are no
understood.On the other hand, the research aims and objectives can be clearly defined in som
right at the initial levels of the study and the research is designed based on the clearly unde
research aims and objectives.Based on the above-mentioned research design theories.It can be
clearly stated that the exploratory research design would be the most specific and appropria
use in this particular research.The initial stages have only defined the background of the study a
the pre-established ideas but there has not been any aims or objectives defined for this part
research (Liu et al.; 2018).This is why, it would be the most useful and appropriate research des
to be used.
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Chapter 4
Proposed project plan
The project plan would define how the conduction ofthe totalproject or the research would be
done in case of the proper collection of data and how these would be conducted in such a w
the analysis of the data would etch out the proper solution about the chosen research topic.This
would be identified from the theories from the research design and the research methodolog
has been described for the proper establishment of the idea to be put into practical use (Bel
2018).The theories willform the basis by which the theoreticalproject work would be proceeded
with. This is why, it is required that the topic background is clearly defined in the proceduresThere
is numerous information available throughout about the cloud computing services, their mob
and the transactional systems that are also based on the cloud computing infrastructures.
This is why, it is most important to understand how the establishment of the theoretical r
to be conducted such that the available literatures are analysed well.This would provide a clear idea
about the total conduction of the research ideas behind the implementation of the theoretic
methodologies into practical use.The collection of literatures and the analysis of these sources ne
to be done first.The literature collection would be done before the review of the researches, w
can be done through numerous other sources, like the articles and journals available over th
and also the electronic databases.This will form the sources of secondary data collection about th
research (Wu et al.; 2017).There are ethical considerations for this as well, since the data need
be collected from the literary sources and they need to be authentic and also the project con
needs to provide proper acknowledgement to the people who actually are the authors of the
that would be considered to be reviewed for the project.
The primary data that would be collected for this research would also be based on the for
of the participants about a developed questionnaire.To be specific,the secondary data collection
for the project would move on to forming the base for the primary data collection method as
sources of making the questions for the questionnaire would begin from the review of the lit
The idea of developing the questionnaire would require people from the different organizatio
representing their ideas on the cloud computing services and their utility in the transaction s
well (Patten and Newhart; 2017).The idea is to accepting the people from the different organizat
who are using the cloud computing services.The collection of these participants would however, be
ethical as they would not be coaxed into the project but they would be considered to be par
only based on their own free will.
However, the project plan can even face several limitations.There may be anticipated limitations
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about the participants appearing for the questionnaires.There might be chances that they may not
find it comfortable to come face to face (Taylor et al.; 2015).For that, a specific time must be made
ready according to their free willon the basis of which they can be provided with an arrangemen
of conducting the project over phone calls.There might be chances that the participant might not
want the call to be recorded and, in such cases, the sole source of the data collection metho
depend on the memory of the project conduction team solely.
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Chapter 5
Conclusion
Therefore,in conclusion,it can be said that the project that would be required for the proper
establishment of the research for finding out the issues in the cloud computing services ava
mobile devices and the issues with the transaction services based on the total idea of the cl
requires severalstages to go through before reaching a conclusion.This is why,the above research
procedure states the ways in which the research procedure needs to follow a basic project s
that would help the research process find the appropriate ways by which the information cou
collected to figure out the issues and find a possible solution.These would be based on the theories
of research conduction methodologies and design which would help the researchers to analy
proper way of establishing the ideals of the research based on the topic.The ethical considerations
and the limitations are also taken case of,with a detailed descriptive procedure established for th
research procedure.With the help of all these presented ideas, theories and practical approach
would be helpfulto find out how the different stages ofthe mobile cloud services and transaction
systems face different issues and in what ways can they be solved.
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