Role of Middleware and Mobile Web Services in Cloud Computing

The large groups of mobile users have made possible the awareness of intelligent environments for human and machines to interact with each other, interact with information processing devices, and avail mobile services through various types of networks and systems ubiquitously. This has opened the doors for business and coalition. These days all businesses are moving on the cloud. So cloud interoperability is essential for mobile devices in order to nurture the decoupling of the handset to a specific cloud vendor. However, developer need to implement different Web API's with respect to cloud vendor within a native mobile platform. To counter this problem of interoperability across multiple clouds to perform processing intensive services from mobile phones and to provide the platform independency feature for the mobile cloud applications, this paper proposed a Mobile Cloud Middleware (MCM) which provides an exclusive interface that responds in JSON format according to the cloud services requested through RESTful Web Services.