Survey on Mobile Social Cloud Computing (MSCC)

Abstract

Due to enhancement in technology the use of mobile devices increases with time. Now mobile devices (mobiles, PDA, Laptops etc.) became an essential part of mankind’s life. With the ease of Internet the popularity of Social Networking Services (SNS) among people increases. With the sharp drops in the prices, the working of mobile devices including smart phones and laptops is rising steadily. So due to this, mobile devices are now used as a provider of computing resources and services instead of requester. For this concept of Cloud Computing (CC) is merged with the mobile computing and SNS which is known as MSCC. MSCC is technology of future and it enables users/consumers to access the services in a fast and efficient manner. MSCC is the integration of three different technologies 1) Mobile Computing 2) SNS 3) Cloud Computing. Here mobile devices are (those have moments) using SNS (Both as a provider or requester) in Cloud Computing (CC) environment. In such environment, a user through mobile devices canparticipate in a social network through relationships which are based on trust. Units of the identical or alike social network can share services or data of cloud with other users of that social network without any authentication by using their mobile device as they be members of the identical social network. Various techniques are revised and improved to achieve good performance in a cloud computing network environment. In this work, there is a detailed survey of existing social cloud and mobile cloud techniques and their application areas. The comparative survey tables can be used as a guideline to select a technique suitable for different applications at hand. This survey paper reports the results of a survey of Mobile Social Cloud Computing (MSCC) regarding the importance of security of MSCC. Here we compare the works of different researcher in the field of MSCC on the basis of some essential features like security algorithm used, Qos and Fault tolerant strategy used, ease of proposed algorithm, space complexity etc. Considering all the limitations of the existing social cloud and mobile cloud techniques, an adaptive MSCC framework of Fault tolerance for future research is proposed.