Mobile app security by fragmentation "MASF"

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) appears as a new computing paradigm which offers computer applications and services with high performance. MCC combines mobile computing and cloud computing, has become one of the main threads of discussion in the IT world since 2010. Smartphones are considered as the representative for the several mobile devices as they have been connected to the Internet with the rapidly growing of wireless network technology or mobile generation network (3G, 4G or 5G). Furthermore, the security presents the important challenge not just in the MCC architecture but also in the smartphone. In this paper, we focus our study in mobile application security because it considered as standard terminal used in MCC. Especially, we present the global architecture and the security of android as popular operating system for mobile phone. In our proposal design, we investigate the possibility to use the fragmentation technique with security policy strategies as access security mechanism to protect data from installed application. The paper concludes by strongly suggesting that can be as future research.