A Systematic Literature Review of Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a relatively new concept that leverages the combination of cloud technology, mobile computing, and wireless networking to enrich the usability experiences of mobile users. Many field of application such as mobile health, mobile learning, mobile commerce and mobile entertainment are now taking advantage of MCC technologies. Since MCC is new, there is need to advance research in MCC in order to deepen practice. Currently, what exist are mostly descriptive literature reviews in the area of MCC. In this paper, a systematic literature review (SLR), which offers a structured, methodical, and rigorous approach to the understanding of the trend of research in MCC, and the least and most researched issue is presented. The objective of the study is to provide a credible intellectual guide for upcoming researchers in MCC to help them identify areas in MCC research where they can make the most impact. The SLR was limited to peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles published from 2002 to 2014. The study reveals that privacy, security and trust in MCC are the least researched, whereas issues of architecture, context awareness and data management have been averagely researched, while issues on operations, end users, service and applications have received a lot of attention in the literature.

Mobile Government Applications Based on Security and Privacy: A Literature Review

“…Firstly, the security and privacy requirements are one of the most important success factors of the mobile government applications implementation [5,6]. Secondly, it is necessary to apply useful privacy and security methods based on the environment of the mobile government applications [13,15,21]. Thirdly, there are many features such as the transferring capacity, speed and device power that affect the security issues of the mobile government applications [1,24].…”

“…It is also due to the lack in the rules and structures of how to develop a secure mobile government applications [4,5]. There are many gaps need to be filled in order to propose Source Aim Scope Findings Strength Weakness Ibukun and Daramola [13] Improve the security of mobile applications.…”

“…Thus, the trust level of mobile devices can be identified based on the predefined signatures. Another work concerning mobile applications' security was conducted by Ibukun and Daramola [13], they explained that the antivirus' tools are effective to detect and prevent the illegal transactions or attacking of service and data. However, the specifications of antivirus for mobile network (i.e.…”

“…In this context, the security and privacy of mobile application are still an issue as the wireless connectivity is less secured than the wire connections [9][10][11][12]. The security and privacy of mobile applications are affected by many complex variables such as usefulness of security and privacy methods, processing speed of mobile devices, storage capacity of mobile devices, the sensitivity level of information and services, speed and coverage of data transferring and the volume of transferred data [13][14][15]. Hence, the analysis of security and privacy features of mobile applications should be carefully conducted according to various variables of mobile environment.…”

Consumers Trust, Privacy and Security Issues on Mobile Commerce Websites

“…Despite mobile computing offering advantages such as mobility and access to diverse network types, it is however limited due to aspects such as intermittent network disconnection, poor reliability and security. Similarly, Ibukun and Daramola (2015) add that mobile computing is hampered by existent constraints in mobile devices in terms of their hardware, software and connectivity. Subsequently, users undertaking their computing activities in mobile environments encounter challenges such as limited computational power, reduced storage sizes and limited battery life.…”