Experimental Framework for Mobile Cloud Computing System

Abstract Mobile cloud computing is an emerging and fast-growing computing paradigm that has gainedgreat interest from both industry and academia. Consequently, many researchers areactively involved in cloud computing research projects. One major challenge facing mobile cloudcomputing researchers is the lack of a comprehensive experimental frameworkto use in their experiments and to evaluate their proposed work. This paper introduces a modeling and simulation environmentfor mobile cloud computing. The experimental framework can be used to evaluate a wide spectrum of mobile cloud componentssuch as processing elements, storage, networking, applications, etc. The framework is built on top of the CloudExp framework which provides the major building blocks needed for any cloud system. Moreover, mobile cloud experimental frameworkcan exploit CloudExp capabilities to simulate big data generation and processing scenarios. An experimental scenario is also introduced in this paper to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed framework.