The end-to-end control and management orchestrate infrastructure and services across several technological domains: wireless, mobile core and data center, providing guaranteed end-to-end SLAs and AAA as well as service mobility through the Follow-Me Cloud concept.

Besides the technological aspects, MobileCloud will identify and evaluate overarching novel business models that support the exploitation of the mobile cloud in various multi-stakeholder scenarios. The MobileCloud architecture will be evaluated in realistic scenarios and with a set of concrete use-cases, based on applications such as mobile cloud enabled digital signage. The evaluation will be done from diverse viewpoints, exploiting the well-balanced and representative consortium, including leading industry from the telecommunication as well as the cloud computing segments.

The chair AV of TU Berlin is mainly involved in the WP3: “Mobile Cloud Infrastructural Foundation” and WP5: “Mobile Platform” development around IMS-as-a-Service based on Cloud Computing principles (on-demand, elastic, pay-as-you-go).

Fraunhofer FOKUS is mainly involved in WP3: “MobileCloud Infrastructural Foundations” and WP4: “Mobile Network Cloud” around virtualization concepts of the Evolved-Packet-Core (EPC).

The OpenEPC toolkit of Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin is a major building block for validating concepts developed the context of the MobileCloud project. Both partners have a long history of Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Chair AV in Next-Generation-Networks starting with Session-Initiation-Protocol (SIP), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Evolved-Packet-Core (EPC). OpenIMSCore and OpenEPC are internationally recognized toolkits, which are used by the academia and industry for fast prototyping of novel access-networks, core network components as well as innovating services development.