Integrated Intelligent Research (IIR) 124 DESKTOP VIEWER SOLUTION FOR MOBILE COMPUTING USING VIRTUAL NETWORK COMPUTING

Abstract — Although advances in miniaturization continue, the desire to preserve the advantages mobile devices have over desktop systems in weight, size, and device autonomy will always impose intrinsic limits on processing power, storage capacity, battery lifetime, and display size. Mobile cloud computing provides a solution to meet the increasing functionality demands of end-users, as all application logic is executed on distant servers and only user interface functionalities reside on the mobile device. The mobile device acts as a remote display, capturing user input and rendering the display updates received from the distant server. Varying wireless channel conditions, short battery lifetime and interaction latency introduce major challenges for the remote display of cloud applications on mobile devices. In this paper, we discuss a number of adequate solutions that have recently been proposed to tackle the main issues associated with the remote display of cloud services on mobile devices