Data security issues in the realm of mobile cloud computing: A survey
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Networks and Communications, Distributed and Parallel Computing, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
- Keywords
- Data security, mobile cloud computing, data integrity, privacy
- Copyright
- © 2018 Anwar
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Data security issues in the realm of mobile cloud computing: A survey. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27050v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27050v1
Abstract
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a recent technological development, which has emerged from two popular technology trends; mobile computing and cloud. In essence it revolutionises the capabilities of mobile devices by integrating both storage and processing of the cloud environment with mobile computing and in doing so providing greater optimisation and operating power, allowing for transparent and seamless use of resources provided by the cloud. However, expanding the capability of resource constrained mobile devices in this manner comes at a price. There are many risks associated with the security of data within the cloud environment and as MCC essentially uses the cloud, it also inherits any security issues that are associated with cloud computing. The aim of this survey is to identify potential data security issues, and analyse and present some pioneering security mechanisms and finally suggest some future directions for better data security with MCC.
Author Comment
A first draft of a comprehensive survey on the security issues in MCC.