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Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective

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Mobile devices and their applications take advantage of cloud computing not only to overcome their limitations in computing, memory and storage resources but also to easily scale up to a large number of users. Many common mobile applications we use every day, such as e-mail, news, social networking and games, already rely on the cloud paradigm due to these reasons. Another trend of the last decade is the evolution towards smart applications that take into account the user’s context, such as their whereabouts and ongoing activities, to adapt the behaviour of the applications according to the current situations. With context management and inferences becoming fairly complex processes, cloud services can offer an edge by taking over the most computationally intensive context management tasks and have these tasks carried out only once for multiple users. However, as a lot of this contextual information is being sensed and captured by the mobile devices themselves, it is not always clear whether it makes sense to upload all the raw sensed data to the cloud and have it completely processed there. These trade-offs depend on the amount of data being communicated and the kind of processing that is required. In this chapter, we analyse the challenges to develop context-aware cloud services for mobile applications and present a conceptual architecture for context processing and service provisioning in the Platform-as-a-Service layer. We highlight various architectural viewpoints of the presented federated context-processing middleware and round up this chapter with a research road map for the future.

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This research is partially funded by the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme Belgian State, Belgian Science Policy and by the Research Fund KU Leuven.

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    Nayyab Zia Naqvi, Davy Preuveneers & Yolande Berbers

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Naqvi, N.Z., Preuveneers, D., Berbers, Y. (2013). Cloud Computing: A Mobile Context-Awareness Perspective. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5107-4_8

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