In the past few years, mobile devices and wireless communication technologies have developed rapidly. With the explosion of mobile applications and user demands, some characteristics of mobile devices such as limited resources (e.g., computation and storage capacity, battery power, etc.) significantly impede the improvement of QoS. Mobile Cloud Computing (MobiCC) is born to tackle these limitations by integrating cloud computing into the mobile environment. It enables users to elastically utilize resources in an on-demand fashion, takes full advantages of cloud computing, and brings new types of services and facilities to users by providing ubiquitous service access. Several organizations have predicted that cloud computing will completely transform the way in which mobile applications and services are acquired, developed and used.


However, there are still many obstacles for MobiCC, including service availability, mobility management, security, privacy, energy efficiency, etc. These problems must be carefully addressed before mobile could become the next big thing. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of mobile cloud computing, including but not limited to:

New architecture of middleware and applications in mobile cloud computing
Distribution of resources and computation between mobile devices and the cloud
Measurement and modeling for mobile cloud computing
Task or resource out-sourcing
Transmission protocols and scheduling algorithms for mobile cloud computing
Availability and reliability of mobile cloud services
Fairness and isolation of mobile devices in the cloud
Collaborative operations in mobile cloud computing
Data sharing and collaboration
Mobile multimedia content delivery with cloud computing
Software structure for mobile cloud application
Cloud-based mobile media system
Mobile social network in cloud computing
Location based services in mobile cloud environment
Context-aware services and computing
Energy-aware wireless communication technologies for mobile cloud computing
Security and privacy protection in mobile cloud computing
Novel mobile cloud computing applications and systems