Editorial for Special Issue on "New Technologies and Applications for Wireless Communications & Mobile Cloud Computing"

Taeshik Shon, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Bharat Bhargava, Ivan Stojmenovic, Hai Jin, Albert Y. Zomaya
2012 Journal on spesial topics in mobile networks and applications  
tackles the optimization of applications in multi-provider hybrid cloud scenarios from an economic point of view. However the approach was intended to introduce a novel solution by making maximum use of divide and rule. Also this article describes a methodology to create cost aware cloud applications that can be broken down into the three most important components in cloud infrastructures: computation, network and storage. A real videoconference system has been modified in order to evaluate
more » ... idea with both theoretical and empirical experiments. The proposed system has become a widely used as a tool in several national and European projects for e-learning and collaboration purposes. The second article, "An Efficient Dynamic Integration Middleware for Cyber-Physical Systems in Mobile Environments" by Young-Sik Jeong, Sang Oh Park and Jong Hyuk Park, proposes a cyber-physical system (CPS) middleware framework that ensures interoperability and communication between heterogeneous components in a global CPS network. A CPS is a tight integration of the system's computational and physical elements. The CPS technology builds on the older discipline of embedded systems, and CPS applications can be found in diverse industry sectors, such as smart home, health care, and transportation. The article assume that a global CPS network that integrates different CPS networks appears in the near future. Through local and global communications, the proposed middleware makes mobile devices in different networks interoperable. The third article, "Particle Swarm Optimization with Skyline Operator for Fast Cloud-based Web Service Composition" by Shangguang Wang, Qibo Sun, Hua Zou, Fangchun Yang, proposed a fast Cloud-based web service
doi:10.1007/s11036-012-0420-0 fatcat:alw5m2gmmfbhhc4mjlcpolmlhu