Mobile applications in context of big data: A survey

A large scale research initiative aimed at generating innovations around handheld devices based research as well as community based evaluation of related mobile applications. Big data refers to huge amount of digital information collected from multiple and different sources. Since a key point of big data is to access data from multiple and different domains, security will play a very important role in big data research and technology. Due to increase the challenges in mobile data or mobile data challenge (MDC), Big data is required for analysis and curation of mobile data. The rapid expansion of mobile technology has introduced a versatile global infrastructure that internally generate vast amount of data like user identification, location, device name and externally generate data related to mobile apps like number of mobile applications, number of downloaded applications, number of failure applications, number of popular applications etc. This paper presents a survey of the mobile applications (apps) in the context of Big data.