Cloud in the air: A heterogeneous data communication framework for mobile cloud computing

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The concurrent emergence of two revolutionary technologies, cloud-based computing and smart mobile devices, will inevitably see the rise of a new mobile cloud computing paradigm. On one hand, cloud computing centres, accessible through the Internet, produce shared pools of always-on computing resources (e.g., software, CPU, storage), which can be rapidly provisioned without the usually prohibitive capital and management costs incurred by users of traditional, self-managed computing servers. On the other hand, smart mobile devices (e.g., iPhones, Android phones, tablets) have evolved, driven by the drastic rise of hardware, application, and wireless communication capabilities, to become ubiquitous tools for both content consumption and content creation. These two new technologies perfectly complement each other, with cloud servers providing the engine for computing and smart mobile devices naturally serving as human interface and untethered sensory inputs.