Title
Modeap: Moving Desktop Application to Mobile Cloud Service
Abstract
Thanks to the availability of various mobile applications, lots of users shift from desktop environments, e.g., PCs and laptops, to mobile devices, e.g., smartphones and tablets. However, there are still some desktop applications without counterparts on mobile devices, such as some integrated development environments (e.g., eclipse) and automatic industry control systems. In this paper, we propose Modeap, a platform-independent mobile cloud service that can push all desktop applications developed for various operating systems from cloud servers to mobile devices. Modeap follows a design principle of complete detachment and regeneration of desktop user interface, i.e., the essential graphical primitives of the original desktop applications will be intercepted and then translated into standard web-based graphical primitives such that the interactions between users and remote cloud applications become possible via mobile web browsers. In this way, all desktop applications built upon the same set of graphical primitives can be used on mobile devices in great flexibility without installing any new software. We have developed a proof-of-concept prototype that provides Windows applications from cloud server to mobile web browsers. The results of extensive experiments show that the proposed framework can achieve our design goals with low latency and bandwidth consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11036-014-0518-7
MONET
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile cloud,Smartphone,Remote desktop protocol,Virtual network computing
Mobile computing,Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware,Mobile search,Remote administration,Computer science,Mobile database,Virtual desktop,Desktop metaphor,Mobile Web,Operating system,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
4
1383-469X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
He Li114411.11
Peng Li28111.75
Song Guo33431278.71
Xiaofei Liao41145120.57
Hai Jin56544644.63