Towards Smart Cloud Gate Middleware : An Approach Based On Profiling Technique

Résumé: Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a new paradigm whose mobile technology aims to exploit the advantages offered by the Cloud in order to provide ubiquitous PC-like functionality to mobile users. Cloud services provisioning is a continuously operating activity, unfortunately, services that has recently been deployed in the Cloud infrastructure remain unused or unknown by mobile devices. It is noteworthy that despite the benefits associated with the adoption of the Cloud by mobile technology the gate to the Cloud remains frozen. This means that mobile applications often use the same services without having an update of the novelty in Cloud. Thus, applications lack awareness of new services which are more advantageous in terms of features and qualities than the currently used ones. This is due to the fact that the interest of researchers in the field of MCC has been focused on how to enhance the performance of the computing counterpart of mobile technology. Actually, Cloud Computing is largely unexplored and considered only as a resource for provisioning on demand services. To enable mobile applications to exploit the Cloud intelligently, we propose Smart Mobile Cloud Architecture (SMCA). We consider this new architecture as referential allowing MCC users to have a full awareness of both contexts (Cloud and Mobile) at the same time. We introduce a new concept called Smart Cloud Gate (SCG), which aims to profile both mobile applications and the Cloud to extract knowledge that will be used as a criterion to select the appropriate services, which will be suggested to mobile applications and give each different application the appropriate view of the Cloud.

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