Multi-platform mobile thin client architecture in cloud environment

Wei Tang, Jun Hyung Lee, Biao Song, Md Motaharul Islam, Sangho Na, Eui Nam Huh

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Abstract

In a thin client computing architecture, application processing is delegated to a remote server rather than running the application locally. User input is forwarded to the server, and the rendered images are relayed through a dedicated remote display protocol to the user's device. Thin-client computing offers the promise of easier-to-maintain computational services with reduced total cost of ownership. With the increasingly development of cloud technology, the server side of thin client architecture is able to be deployed in cloud, thus makes the full use of the features of the Cloud, for example, virtualization, flexibility, security, and dynamic management. Meanwhile the client side can also use the mobile thin device. The traditional thin client architecture, which is platform-dependant, however, limits the most benefit of the software providers and end-users. So we propose multi-platform thin client architecture, which use VNC (Virtual Network Computing) protocol and run in the cloud environment. In this architecture, both side of the service will benefit a lot. In the one hand, the end-user can use cheap, light mobile terminal which enjoy all kind of software service of different platform. In the other hand, the software provider or developer can get more benefit with more download mass and wider circulated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)499-504
Number of pages6
JournalProcedia Environmental Sciences
Volume11
Issue numberPART A
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event2011 2nd International Conference on Challenges in Environmental Science and Computer Engineering, CESCE 2011 - Haikou, China
Duration: 14 Dec 201115 Dec 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Future-based T echnology Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF ) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0020725)

Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • Distributed system
  • Thin client
  • VNC
  • Virtual desktop

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