5
Mobile Cloud Networking
and Mobility Control
Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) is a solution which has become
very important in the context of mobile networks. The basic element is
the mobile terminal, which moves around and requests services from a
Cloud which, for its part, is fixed. Mobile Cloud also refers to
technologies where the Cloud itself is mobile. It moves around with
the client. The mobile Cloud may be virtual but also physical. We
shall begin, in the first section, by examining MCN, and then in the
second section we shall look at mobile Clouds, before concluding this
chapter with a discussion of the means of control of mobility of the
terminals and users.
5.1. Mobile Cloud Networking
The exact definition of “Mobile Cloud Networking” is very
controversial, because there is no real definition and no clear
architecture. There are two predominant orientations in the field of
MCN:
– an application orientation, which means that a mobile device
with limited resources is able to handle applications which require
intensive computations or more memory than the terminal has;
– a network orientation, which involves the optimization of
algorithms for the control of mobile services.
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