A Survey on Mobile Virtualization using Cloud Computing

ABSTRACT With the fast growth of mobile technology, mobile devices have become an essential part of human life. But yet its hardware has faced lots of challenges due to the limitation of their resources, such as processing power, battery life, and storage. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and virtualization have been introduced to integrate the cloud computing into the mobile environment to overcome the obstacles related to the performance of the mobile devices, and to enhance its resource utilization. In this paper, we present an overview of virtualization in terms of concepts, types, techniques, and approaches that allow users to create virtual mobile images into a cloud to free them from the limitations of their mobile devices' recourses and easily tap into the power of the cloud. Moreover, we highlight benefits and issues of some mobile virtualization approaches. This survey will support the future research and development work and raise the awareness about the presented approaches. Keywords:MCC, Virtualization, Hypervisor