Methods to utilizing cloud computing in developing mobile internet device (MID) applications

Abstract

Cloud Computing (CC) is emerged as an effective reuse paradigm, where software functionality, hardware computing power, and other computing resources are delivered in the form of service. Mobile Internet Device (MID), as a portable handheld device, becomes a strong candidate for client-side computing. MID has a limited resource and computing power, hence, it is not deploy the applications which require complex computation and large amount of resources. The MID feature of limited resource forbids deploying and running complex software application on MID, and a key concept of CC is to deploy all the computing resources are placed on the provider side. Hence, by applying CC concepts to the MID environment, disadvantages derived from limited resource can be overcome. Therefore, we first identify key features of MID applications. To overcome a drawback of MID, limited resource, we present our justification of applying CC to MID environment and key methods which are raised in applying CC to MID environment.