Includes a preface written by Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCLA, USA
This book discusses and explores the concept of mobile cloud, creating an inspiring research space for exploiting opportunistic resource sharing, and covering from theoretical research approaches to the development of commercially profitable ideas.
A mobile cloud is a cooperative arrangement of dynamically connected communication nodes sharing opportunistic resources. In this book, authors provide a comprehensive and motivating overview of this rapidly emerging technology. The book explores how distributed resources can be shared by mobile users in very different ways and for various purposes. The book provides many stimulating examples of resource-sharing applications. Enabling technologies for mobile clouds are also discussed, highlighting the key role of network coding. Mobile clouds have the potential to enhance communications performance, improve utilization of resources and create flexible platforms to share resources in very novel ways.
Energy efficient aspects of mobile clouds are discussed in detail, showing how being cooperative can bring mobile users significant energy saving. The book presents and discusses multiple examples of mobile clouds applications, based on both existing commercial initiatives as well as proof-of-concept test-beds. Visions and prospects are also discussed, paving the way for further development. As mobile networks and social networks become more and more reliant on each other, the concept of resource sharing takes a wider and deeper meaning, creating the foundations for a global real-time multidimensional resource pool, the underlying infrastructure for shareconomy. Above all, this is an inspiring book for anyone who is concerned about the future of wireless and mobile communications networks and their relationship with Social networks.
Key Features:
* Provides fundamental ideas and promising concepts for exploiting opportunistic cooperation and cognition in wireless and mobile networks
* Gives clear definitions of mobile clouds from different perspectives
* Associates mobile and wireless networks with social networks, creating a vast fertile ground for novel developments in both research and practical applications
* Considers research directions, emerging trends and visions
This book is an excellent resource for wireless/networking researchers in industry and academia, students and mobile phone programmers. Managers interested in new technology developments, service providers, network operators, and those working in the gaming industry will also find the book insightful.
Sobre o autor
Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor in the department of
Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his
diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische
Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D.
(Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University
Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the
University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. He co-founded the
start-up company acticom Gmb H in Berlin in 1999. He has visited
various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won
the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite
Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA
Champion Award several times in a row from 2007 to 2011. In 2008 he
was awarded the Nokia Achievement Award for his work on cooperative
networks. In 2011 he received the SAPERE AUDE research grant from
the Danish government and in 2012 he received the Vodafone
Innovation price. His current research interests are in the areas
of wireless and mobile communication networks, mobile phone
programming, network coding, cross layer as well as energy
efficient protocol design and cooperative networking.
Marcos D. Katz works as a professor at Centre for
Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. He received
the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional
de Tucumán, Argentina in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995
and 2002, respectively. He worked as a Research Engineer at Nokia
Telecommunications from 1987 to 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he was a
Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Networks, Finland. In
2001-2002 he was a Research Scientist at the Centre for
Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. In years
2003-2005 Dr Katz was the Principal Engineer at Samsung
Electronics, Advanced Research Lab., Telecommunications R&D
Center, Suwon, Korea. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a Chief
Research Scientist at VTT, the Technical Research Centre of
Finland. His current research interests include cooperative and
cognitive networking as well as optical communications,
particularly visible light communications.
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