Developing a Mobile Application Proxy for Multiple Clouds

Abstract

In recent years cloud hosting services have provided a good platform for mobile application providers so as to lower the cost of hardware maintenance and management For end users they are able to utilize cloud resources in a well network environment Nevertheless current cloud services and mobile applications in Taiwan are generally lack of locality Therefore it possibly takes much time to use these services through oversea connections In addition most of current mobile applications are with a single cloud hosting resulting in a higher probability of service congestion or service interruption In this work we aim at alleviating the impacts of service congestion and service interruption with multiple clouds and improving user experiences with the proxy architecture Empirical studies show that we can reduce the bad user experience from service congestion or service interruption and lower the risk of single cloud hosting

Date of Award	2014 Aug 29
Original language	English
Supervisor	Wei-Guang Teng (Supervisor)