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      POLICY-BASED MIDDLEWARE FOR MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

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      Date
      2015-10-20
      Author
      Ahmed, Kazi Ashik
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Mobile devices are the dominant interface for interacting with online services as well as an efficient platform for cloud data consumption. Cloud computing allows the delivery of applications/functionalities as services over the internet and provides the software/hardware infrastructure to host these services in a scalable manner. In mobile cloud computing, the apps running on the mobile device use cloud hosted services to overcome resource constraints of the host device. This approach allows mobile devices to outsource the resource-consuming tasks. Furthermore, as the number of devices owned by a single user increases, there is the growing demand for cross-platform application deployment to ensure a consistent user experience. However, the mobile devices communicate through unstable wireless networks, to access the data and services hosted in the cloud. The major challenges that mobile clients face when accessing services hosted in the cloud, are network latency and synchronization of data. To address the above mentioned challenges, this research proposed an architecture which introduced a policy-based middleware that supports user to access cloud hosted digital assets and services via an application across multiple mobile devices in a seamless manner. The major contribution of this thesis is identifying different information, used to configure the behavior of the middleware towards reliable and consistent communication among mobile clients and the cloud hosted services. Finally, the advantages of the using policy-based middleware architecture are illustrated by experiments conducted on a proof-of-concept prototype.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      Deters, Dr. Ralph
      Committee
      Vassileva, Dr. Julita; Roy, Dr. Chanchal; Wahid, Dr. A.
      Copyright Date
      August 2013
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-08-1156
      Subject
      mobile cloud computing
      middleware
      web services
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