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We are developing MobiDesk, a mobile virtual desktop computing hosting
infrastructure that leverages continued improvements in network speed,
cost, and ubiquity to address the complexity, cost, and mobility
limitations of today's personal computing infrastructure. MobiDesk
transparently virtualizes a user's computing session by abstracting
underlying system resources in three key areas: display, operating
system, and network. It provides a thin virtualization layer
that decouples a user's computing session from any particular end-user
device, and moves all application logic to hosting providers.
The virtualization layer decouples a user's computing session from the
underlying operating system and server instance, enabling
high-availability service by transparently migrating sessions from one
server to another during server maintenance or upgrades. We have
implemented a prototype in Linux that works with existing unmodified
applications and operating system kernels. Our experimental results
demonstrate that MobiDesk has very low virtualization overhead, can
provide a full featured desktop experience including full-motion video
support, and is able to migrate users' sessions efficiently and
reliably for high-availability, while maintaining existing network
connections.
More Information:
- Albert M. Lai, Justin B. Starren, David R. Kaufman, Eneida A. Mendonça, Walter Palmas, Jason Nieh, and Steven Shea, "The REmote Patient Education in a Telemedicine Environment Architecture (REPETE)", Telemedicine and e-Health, 14(4), May 2008, pp. 355-361.
- Albert M. Lai, Jason Nieh, and Justin B. Starren, "REPETE2: A Next Generation Home Telemedicine Architecture", Abstract in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2007 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 10-14, 2007, p. 1020.
- Oren Laadan, Ricardo Baratto, Dan Phung, Shaya Potter, and Jason Nieh, "DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder", Proceedings of the Twenty-first ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007), Stevenson, WA, October 14-17, 2007, pp. 279-292.
- Kenneth Ocheltree, Steven Millman, David Hobbs, Martin McDonnell, Jason Nieh, and Ricardo Baratto, "Net2Display: A Proposed VESA Standard for Remoting Displays and I/O Devices over Networks", Proceedings of the 2006 Americas Display Engineering and Applications Conference (ADEAC 2006), Atlanta, GA, October 23-26, 2006.
- Joeng Kim, Ricardo Baratto, and Jason Nieh, "An Application Streaming Service for Mobile Handheld Devices", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), Chicago, IL, September 18-22, 2006, pp. 323-326.
- Albert Lai and Jason Nieh, "On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 24(2), May 2006, pp. 175-209.
- Joeng Kim, Ricardo Baratto, and Jason Nieh, "pTHINC: A Thin-Client Architecture for Mobile Wireless Web", Proceedings of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23-26, 2006, pp. 143-152.
- Lei Zhang, "Implementing Remote Display on Commodity Operating Systems", M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, January 2006.
- Debra Cook, Ricardo Baratto, and Angelos Keromytis, "Remotely Keyed CryptoGraphics: Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) Untrusted Hardware", Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2005), Beijing, China, December 10-13, 2005, pp. 363-375.
- Ricardo Baratto, Leonard Kim, and Jason Nieh, "THINC: A Virtual Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing", Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23-26, 2005, pp. 277-290.
- Debra L. Cook, Ricardo Baratto, and Angelos D. Keromytis, "Remotely Keyed CryptoGraphics - Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) Untrusted Hardware", Technical Report CUCS-050-04, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, December 2004.
- Ricardo Baratto, Shaya Potter, Gong Su, and Jason Nieh, "MobiDesk: Mobile Virtual Desktop Computing", Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2004), Philadelphia, PA, September 26-October 1, 2004, pp. 1-15. (Best Student Paper Award)
- Albert Lai, Jason Nieh, Andrew Laine, and Justin Starren, "Remote Display Performance for Wireless Healthcare Computing", Proceedings of the Eleventh World Conference on Medical Informatics (Medinfo 2004), San Francisco, CA, September 7-11, 2004, pp. 1438-1442.
- Ricardo A. Baratto, Jason Nieh, and Leo Kim, "THINC: A Remote Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing", Technical Report CUCS-027-04, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, July 2004.
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