A Survey of Energy-Efficiency in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC)

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) integrates the cloud computing into the mobile environment and overcome difficulties related to the performance like battery life, storage, and bandwidth, environment such as heterogeneity, scalability, and availability and security (reliability and privacy) in mobile computing. Together with an explosive growth of the mobile applications and emerging of cloud computing, mobile cloud computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a prospective technology for mobile services. Energy efficiency is an important for Mobile Environment in Cloud Computing. Because the increased usage of MCC, simultaneously with rising energy costs and require to reduce green house gas emissions call for energy-efficient technologies that decrease the overall energy consumption of computation, storage and communications. Mobile Cloud computing has recently received significant attention, as a promising approach for delivering services in MCC by improving the utilization of data centre resources. In principle, MCC can be an inherently energy-efficient technology for ICT provided that it’s potential for significant energy savings. Thus this paper, in the context of MCC, reviews the usage of methods and technologies used for energy-efficient operation of computer hardware and network infrastructure. This paper also identifies some of the remaining key research challenges that occur when such energy-saving techniques are extended for use in MCC.