Mobile capability development increases with the need to use it. However, mobile devices still lack computational resources. Mobile cloud computing is the solution to overcome these challenges. Extensive research has been conducted to solve these problems, and a large number of new techniques were developed. Many of these researches solve the resource problem by partitioning and offloading applications to the cloud to tap its full computational and storage availability. Other methods involve offloading part of the applications while retaining the rest for processing on the smartphone - the decision making in these techniques based on metrics such as power and CPU consumption. Also, small numbers of available solutions consider security issues. This paper proposed a new elastic framework named secure framework for mobile capabilities augmentation using cloud computing (SMCACC) that enables …