International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Technology Vol. (1), No. (1), 2017, pp. 41-47 41 Novel Framework for Elastic Resource Allocation in Mobile Cloud Computing P. Kannan 1 , M. Durairaj 1 Research Scholar, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India kannancsbdu@gmail.com, durairaj1.bdu@gmail.com ABSTRACT Mobile cloud computing is an important emerging area where mobile users utilize services such as Infrastructure, Software and Platform in an on-demand elastic manner. It provides resources based on mobility, bandwidth, network coverage, cloudlet location and resource offloading. Elastic resource allocation dynamically disintegrates; distribute resources to mobile cloud users. It is one of the major challenging tasks in mobile cloud environment. Hence, this paper proposes a novel framework for elastic resource allocation for mobile cloud users. This work highlights the techniques involved in the elastic resource allocation with likelihood is important to handle cloud computing resources in an educational cloud for university. Keywords: Mobile Cloud computing, Elasticity, Resource management, Partitioning. 1. INTRODUCTION Cloud computing is a new business model focusing on resource-on-demand, pay-as-you-go and utility computing [1]. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the computing, which refers to anytime, anywhere access to applications and data through the internet from standalone devices and mobile devices. In MCC, resources are accessed on-demand basis which resulted in reduction of cost investments for users by hiring resources rather than purchase them. The user can access the applications and data from anywhere at any point of time through internet. Existing elastic application models for cloud are not well suited for mobile cloud due to scalability, mobility, network latency, cost and maintenance. As a result, new experiments and proposal of new framework models for mobile cloud are emerging. The ultimate aim is to render better use of device resources with scalable, minimum latency and low cost. Elasticity [2] is an essential feature in cloud computing. Instead of fixing the system resource allocation in advance, the cloud system dynamically responds to actual variations by applying virtual resources. Partitioning [3, 6, 9] of resources is a key factor in elasticity which dynamically adds or removes virtual resources according to the variations of workload. To accomplish consistent migration and suitable offloading [4, 5, 8] between mobile devices and server, each application should be divided into an elastic module called