The current state of mobile communication systems has advanced to the point that now they contain novel processing technologies and have applications that give them capabilities and power similar to traditional desktop computers, along with global access to data via the Internet. It has been argued that this is largely a result of the emphasis on pervasive computing along with the requirements for ubiquitous network access. In addition, recent mobile communication systems such as Smartphone, tablet, and mobile gadgets represent an advanced communication environment featuring daily life objects that continuously involve and are focused on final non-expert users. Most researchers predict that these smart devices and platforms’communicationsystems, asthey continuetobe developed,will provide an avenue for manynew types of services. This trend of rapid growth of smart communication systems throughout the past few years has contributed to an increase of pervasive computing and has provided a variety of convergence services. The goal of this issue is to bring together state-of-the-art researchthat describes original and unpublished work addressing‘Advanced Processing Technologies and Applications for Mobile Communication Systems’ .I t will reflect the state of the art of the various smart devices’ communication, network, applications and services, platforms, security of new processing techniques in engineering, science, and other disciplines related to the Smartphone applications and services for pervasive computing and the Internet of Things. This special issue is aimed to solicit research results on the following topics of interest, but not limited: