Chapter 3

Mobile Cloud Service Models

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Abstract

Internet cloud services are usually categorized into IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. However, it does not apply to mobile cloud service models, where mobiles may be a service provider, service consumer and/or service broker at the same time. It is more suitable to classify mobile cloud services using a user-centric approach, where mobile devices holders regard his/her mobiles as service consumer which may consume computing and storage resources, retrieve data, and compose services from the cloud, etc.; mobile devices can serve as cloud service providers providing ...

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