Development of mobile intercloud applications

Abstract

With the advent of cloud computing and mobile computing, many smart computing applications for mobile data management can be developed. In this paper, we present a development framework and tool for developing innovative mobile Intercloud applications. By means of mobile Intercloud, data can be transferred and processed through the collaboration of clouds as controlled by a mobile terminal. To facilitate the development of mobile Intercloud applications, we have developed a package of App Inventor blocks. Working with the InterCloud Communications Protocol, these graphical programming blocks allow various mobile Intercloud applications to be developed effectively and efficiently. Three innovative applications are presented to illustrate the benefits of mobile Intercloud applications. An evaluation and performance analysis were conducted for an automatic file transfer application. The evaluation and results provide valuable insights into the design of smart computing applications in general and mobile Intercloud applications in particular.