Paper Info
Title
MobiCloUP!: a PaaS for cloud services-based mobile applications
Abstract
The integration of cloud computing and mobile computing has recently resulted in the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm which is defined as the availability of $$c$$ c loud services over a mobile ecosystem. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a model of cloud computing that refers to high-level software systems delivered over Internet. This model typically enables developers to deliver Web applications as Software as a Service. With the aim of providing support to the MCC, in this work a PaaS called MobiCloUP! is proposed for mobile Web and native applications based on third-party cloud services such as Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest, to mention but a few. Unlike other commercial solutions such as force.com, Google $$^{\mathrm{TM}}$$ TM App Engine and other academic proposals like MOSAIC, MobiCloUP! implements an automatic code generation programming model targeting rich mobile applications based on both Web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX and Rich Internet Application frameworks like Adobe $$^{\textregistered }$$ ® Flex. The MobiCloUP! core is a wizard tool that covers design, publish/deployment, development and maintenance phases for mobile development life-cycle. In order to validate our proposal, Web 2.0 services-based Web and native mobile applications were developed and deployed to the Cloud using MobiCloUP!. Finally, a qualitative-comparative evaluation was performed in order to validate the legitimacy of our proposal against other similar commercial proposals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s10515-014-0143-5
Automated Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile Cloud Computing,Platform as a Service,Rich Internet Applications,Web 2.0 services
Mobile cloud computing,Mobile computing,World Wide Web,Mobile search,Computer science,Mobile Web,Web application,Rich Internet application,Cloud testing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
3
0928-8910
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.44
17
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Omar Colombo-Mendoza1274.28
Giner Alor-Hernández213639.47
Alejandro Rodríguez-González310426.37
Rafael Valencia-garcía463054.42