Trusted, heterogeneous, and autonomic mobile cloud

Offloading computing to distributed and possibly mobile nodes is increas- ingly popular thanks to the convenience and availability of cloud resources. How- ever, trusted mobile computing is not presently viable due to a number of issues in both the mobile platform architectures and in the cloud service implementations. The complexity of such systems potentially exposes them to malicious and/or self- ish behavior. This chapter describes the state-of-the-art research on theoretical ad- vancements and practical implementations of trusted computing on a mobile cloud. Further, mobile distributed cloud computing security and reliability issues are intro- duced. Discussed solutions feature different levels of resiliency against malicious and misbehaving nodes.