Cloud-Based Mobile Data Backup and Recovery Technique Using the Ethiopian-Telecommunication GSM Network

Abstract

Nowadays the growth of IT infrastructures, desktop computers, laptop, tablets, and mobile phones makes technology users dependent on the digital information. Mobile phones, like feature phones, and smartphones main aim is to enable individual users to communicate with one other based on their available contacts addresses, text-messaging and maintain personal information. Feature phones are mobile phones with less capability in all angles, whereas smartphones have the better capability; both enable efficient communication whether we use GSM or CDMA network. As mobile devices are prone to error, easy for hardware damage, or are exposed to theft, the data resides on the devices must be backed up so that it can be recovered any time when it is needed. The main objective of this study is to provide Backup as a Service solution of a complete backup and recovery service to both feature phones and smartphones using the emerging cloud-based technology and a web service, Microsoft Azure Storage, in which it addresses the problem of permanent data loss and auto-data portability in different mobile phone platforms, and designing a framework for backup and recovery service that supports both feature and smart mobile phone. This study involves by creating java application for feature phones using J2ME technology, and Android application which enables smartphone mobile users to save their data on the remote server on Microsoft Azure Storage, and recovers it when they need, peer storage and recovery service for feature phones, using P2P BR feature phone app feature and a de-duplication component to prevent unwanted duplicated data during taking backup is also incorporated. Generally, this backup and recovery solution is intended for synchronizing feature phones and smartphones through the cloud storage service.