Mobile Cloud Computing Security Models: An Overview

Cloud computing is the on demand of database storage, IT services and application over the internet. When paired with mobile computing, it vastly augments the limited resources of mobile devices in terms of processing power, battery life and storage. Hence raise up the Mobile Cloud Computing technology in which mobile users can access data anywhere and anytime, execute application regardless of the platform and benefit from various cloud services. However the MCC comes along with major challenges in data security and privacy that prevent it to be widely adopted. The purpose of this survey is to present data security and privacy requirement in Mobile Cloud Computing environment and the challenges it introduces. We also present the corresponding solutions that have been identified by various researchers to settle the challenges. Furthermore, we analyze and compare the works done by others researchers. We find out the best practices from each researcher work and combine them to build a framework.