Mobile Clouds

Foreword xiii
 
Preface xv
 
Acknowledgements xxi
 
Abbreviations xxiii
 
Part One MOBILE CLOUDS: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
 
1 Motivation 3
 
1.1 Introduction 3
 
1.2 From Brick Phones to Smart Phones 5
 
1.3 Mobile Connectivity Evolution: From Single to Multiple Air Interface Devices 7
 
1.4 Network Evolution: The Need for Advanced Architectures 10
 
1.5 Conclusion 11
 
References 11
 
2 Mobile Clouds: An Introduction 13
 
2.1 Introduction 13
 
2.2 Mobile Cloud Definitions 15
 
2.3 Cooperation and Cognition in Mobile Clouds 24
 
2.4 Mobile Cloud Classification and Associated Cooperation Approaches 27
 
2.5 Types of Cooperation and Incentives 29
 
2.6 Conclusion 33
 
References 35
 
3 Sharing Device Resources in Mobile Clouds 37
 
3.1 Introduction 37
 
3.2 Examples of Resource Sharing 39
 
3.3 Sharing Loudspeakers 40
 
3.4 Sharing Microphones 41
 
3.5 Sharing Image Sensors 42
 
3.6 Sharing Displays 44
 
3.7 Sharing General-Purpose Sensors 46
 
3.8 Sharing Keyboards 46
 
3.9 Sharing Data Pipes 46
 
3.10 Sharing Mobile Apps 48
 
3.11 Sharing Mass Memory 48
 
3.12 Sharing Processing Units 49
 
3.13 Sharing Batteries 50
 
3.14 Conclusion 51
 
References 51
 
Part Two ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MOBILE CLOUDS
 
4 Wireless Communication Technologies 55
 
4.1 Introduction 55
 
4.2 Cellular Communications Systems 56
 
4.3 Short-Range Technologies 58
 
4.4 Combined Air Interface 62
 
4.5 Building Mobile Clouds 64
 
4.6 Conclusion 65
 
References 66
 
5 Network Coding for Mobile Clouds 67
 
5.1 Introduction to Network Coding 67
 
5.2 Inter-Flow Network Coding 68
 
5.3 Inter-Flow Network Coding for User Cooperation in Mobile Clouds

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 GmbH 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

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