A Comprehensive Review on Adaptability of Network Forensics Frameworks for Mobile Cloud Computing

Table 2

Description of network positioning in MCC.

Cloud access network	Data center network (DCN)	Intercloud network
Connects smartphone user to cloud system through wireless, ratio access network (RAN), 3G/4G and LTE networks [4].	DCN connects application software & cluster of computers within data center [70].	Connects two or more cloud systems for cloud collaboration [68]
Public cloud networking makes availability of network applications to users via internet [71].	Its network expands towards connecting two or more data centers with a single cloud system [70]	It not only connects two cloud systems but provides additional functionality such as data format conversions, network virtualization, service availability, address management, intelligent routing, and efficient security [72].
It faces challenges related to security, compliance, privacy, and high availability [71].	It maintains low cost with maximizing efficiency and throughput [71]	It benefits by connecting with one cloud system and acquires its services, dedicated network, and increase transfer speed through protocol optimization [73].
RAN lacks centralize organization for emerging heterogeneous networks, flexibility to drift network services towards network verge for new application utilization and generate revenue from it [74].	Mostly faces two challenges such as scalability and cost effectiveness. Scalability depends on architectural design of DCN while cost depends on its power consumption [75].