MOBILE SOCIAL CLOUD COMPUTING: OPEN CHALLENGES

Mobile Social Cloud Computing (MSCC) integrates the Cloud Computing and Social networking into the wireless mobile communication environment. We have seen an exceptional boost in the usage and deployment of smart phone platforms and social networking applications worldwide. At the same time, mobile devices are progressively becoming essential part of one's life as these are most convenient and effective communication tools these days and not bounded by time and place.In the recent years, we have seen that CCframeworks, such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure and Google AppEngine become progressively more popular among IT developers and organizational clients. In social computing, users share media and other files among each other with less or no authentication because users are eager to provide their data to other SN members even through mobile devices. The paper presents representative effects of the MSCC paradigm. The inherent major technical challenges (problems), like frequent disconnections that are associated with mobility,that arise in MSCC and the opportunities that can be realized to overcome thechallenges are presented. We conclude the paper by highlighting future insights in the domain.