QoS of mobile cloud computing applications in healthcare

Nowadays, millions of users are using devices to access Internet services, and the growth of this is just exponential. Simultaneously, mobile cloud computing (MCC) tries to distribute computation from mobile devices, solving the limitations of them with the capacity of cloud computing (CC). There are also other approaches that share MCC and computation in the local devices. CC still confronts several challenges, one of which is quality of services (QoS), which is especially crucial in health-care applications. Therefore one of the main contributions of this chapter is a review of the literature of QoS of MCC and the most novel and current applications, mainly in the health area. We also discuss all the challenges and opportunities that MCC applications are facing currently as well as the current status related to performance evaluation and QoS in MCC. The challenge for future work is to integrate the different systems adapting the new technologies both in communications and in data analysis.