SMS Based Service Delivery Platform for Mobile Cloud Applications

Mobile Cloud Computing (MC2) is the paradigm evolved to serve the centralized cloud services or data in to the mobile end users as mobile device usage is increasing rapidly including in the rural areas.  With the advent of e-governance applications in cloud like Opendata, are targeted users including rural user base which brings challenges with nature of constrained devices. The Internet connectivity from remote and rural areas is a problem with existing data networks for accessing these cloud services. Network such as SMS channels are rich in connectivity, comparison with internet to rural areas can act as alternative medium. This SMS networks has emerged as disjoint channels with regard to accessing of cloud services. From this, we proposed a SMS based Mobile Cloud Service Delivery Platform (SMCSDP) for mobile-cloud interactions. It designed to provide adaptive & secure platform based on two components, a server component which integrates with the cloud back-ends do necessary translations, gateway operations for the Client SMS requests and the client component which runs on user device, which acts as a SMS based browser and puts the requests through SMS channel as in secure service request format. The SMCSDP paradigm acts as an end-to-end proxy between mobile device and actual cloud server and empowers constrained devices for better service experience.