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Informaatio- ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta | Bachelor's thesis(2009) Suikkola, Vesa - Value generation in mobile clouds - Analysis of emerging applications
School of Science | Master's thesis(2011) Suikkola, VesaIn the past few years, cloud computing has been a key topic of interest among the ICT industry and researchers around the world. The topic has also begun to raise interest in the context of mobile services. This development is known as mobile cloud computing or mobile clouds. Mobile terminals, which often have limited, processing capabilities, can greatly benefit from the support of cloud infrastructure - for example, mobile clouds can help to reduce energy consumption on end-user devices. In addition, mobile clouds can be utilized to overcome the mobile platform fragmentation challenges faced by the application developers, who must take into account various mobile operating systems. One of the key enablers in this domain is the open application programming interfaces that allow the developers to utilize the cloud infrastructure. For mobile clouds, a major enabler is the Open Telco concept, which allows the developers access to telecommunications operators network capabilities. However, real-life deployments of Open Telco systems are scarce as the operators are uneager to deploy wide-scale implementations due to uncertainty of the investment value. Consequently, the developers lack a system in which to experiment, and are thus not able to create value into the system. This thesis studies the generation of value in the mobile cloud context by performing a case analysis of an Open Telco pilot system and two emerging mobile cloud applications it enables. By synthesizing the results, this thesis identifies several critical-design issues for these systems and presents a novel organizational model - called the virtual-broker model - to resolve these issues. Finally, this thesis presents a conceptual model for the generation of value in mobile clouds.