Abstract
Integrating cloud infrastructure and services into the Mobile Communication Environment (MCE) is an intensive research area nowadays. Mobile cloud computing provides interesting research opportunities to resolve the boundaries between mobile and cloud computing. Studies show that mobile devices are limited in resources: memory, network bandwidth, availability and specifically processing power. It does not meet the demand of high performance applications for mobile users. One obvious solution to this requirement is to get the processing power as a service from a resource-rich environment. Cloud computing is a service-based approach which provides the required computing resources to its subscribed users: on-demand, scaled elastically, and economically feasible in response to user's requirement. The cloud services which facilitate mobile environment describes as Mobile Cloud Computing (MC2). Existing advanced mobile devices can perform various multimedia applications (e. g., M-Commerce, Health Care, Games, Rich Media, etc.) and provide a number of utilities; they are not efficient for executing intensive computing applications such as advanced 3D Games, scientific calculations, result optimizer, high definition weather forecasting and many more. These applications require high processing power, intensive memory mapping and sufficient network support for efficient execution. Currently some IT giants like IBM, Rackspace, Penguin Computing, Sara, PureWeb and Sabalcore are providing High Performance Cloud Computing Applications (HPCCAs) over the cloud infrastructure. The HPCCAs shall be potential services for existing smart mobile device users. In this paper our focus is to analyze and present a comprehensive study to observe: Is utilization of HPCCA efficient in mobile environment? In our analysis, we considered different aspects and consequences of High Performance Computing (HPC) in mobile cloud environment. For example, High bandwidth, Signal quality, Mobility, Service availability and Security concerns. Through this analysis, we found HPCA is efficient in mobile cloud environment.