Architectural Designs from Mobile Cloud Computing to Ubiquitous Cloud Computing - Survey

This work explores the design trends on Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and the recent shift to Ubiquitous Cloud Computing (UCC). The study shows that efficient architectures for the MCC and UCC systems can be deployed through the employment of techniques such as: Virtual Machine (VM) Architectures and Migration, Data, Services, Resource and Computation Offloading, Partitioning and Parallel Execution, and Resource Allocation. The work is aimed at aiding mobile and cloud computing software engineers to understand the broader scope of the area regarding problem identification and solutions.