MoCCA: A Mobile Cellular Cloud Architecture

Authors

  • Amitabh Mishra Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Gerald Masson Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.221

Keywords:

Mobile cellular networks, cloud computing, performance

Abstract

This paper presents MoCCA–a cellular cloud architecture for buildingmobile clouds using small-footprint micro-servers running on cellphones. We provide details of this architecture which is based on GSMstandard, discuss several challenges, and include performance results to validate the assumptions that a mobile cellular cloud can indeed be inthe realm of possibilities.

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Author Biographies

Amitabh Mishra, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

Amitabh Mishra is a faculty in the Information Security Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. His current research is in the area of cloud computing, data analytics, dynamic spectrum management, and data network security and forensics. In the past he has worked on the cross-layer design optimization of sensor networking protocols, media access control algorithms for cellular-ad hoc inter-working, systems for critical infrastructure protection, and intrusion detection in mobile ad hoc networks. His research has been sponsored by NSA, DARPA, NSF, NASA,Raytheon, BAE, APL, and US Army. In the past, he was associate professor of computer engineering at Virginia Tech and a member of technical staff with Lucent Technologies – Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois. His has worked on architecture and performance of communication applications running on 5ESS switch. GPRS, CDMA 2000 and UMTS were a few of the areas he worked on while with Bell Laboratories. He received his B. Eng. and M. Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1973,and 1975 respectively. He obtained his M. Eng. and Ph. D. in 1982, and 1985 respectively also in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and a MS in Computer Science in 1996 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mishra is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and SIAM. He is author of the book Security and Quality of Service in Wireless Ad hoc Networks, published by Cambridge University Press (2007). He is a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine.

Gerald Masson, Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

Gerald Masson is a Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was the founding director of Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and chair of the computer science department. His research interests are in fault tolerant computing, real-time error monitoring of hardware and software, inter-connection networks, and computer-communications. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

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2013-07-25

How to Cite

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Mishra A, Masson G. MoCCA: A Mobile Cellular Cloud Architecture. JCSANDM [Internet]. 2013 Jul. 25 [cited 2025 Feb. 12];2(2):105-2. Available from: https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JCSANDM/article/view/6135

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2013: Vol 2 Iss 2

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