Two waves of technology are dramatically changing daily life： cloud computing and mobile phones. New cloud computing services such as webmail and content rich data search have emerged. However, in order to use these ...Two waves of technology are dramatically changing daily life： cloud computing and mobile phones. New cloud computing services such as webmail and content rich data search have emerged. However, in order to use these services, a mobile phone must be able to run new applications and handle high network bandwidth. Worldwide, about 3.45 billion mobile phones are low end phones; they have low bandwidth and cannot run new applications. Because of this technology gap, most mobile users are unable to experience cloud computing services with their thumbs. In this paper, a novel platform, Thumb-in-Cloud, is proposed to bridge this gap. Thumb-in-Cloud consists of two subsystems： Thumb-Machine and Thumb-Gateways. Thumb-Machine is a virtual machine built into a low end phone to enable it to run new applications. Thumb-Gateways can tailor cloud computing services by reformatting and compressing the service to fit the phone ＇ s profile.展开更多
基金supported by CityU Applied Research Grant (ARG) under Grant No. 9667033Shenzhen Basic Research Grant under No. JC200903170456A+3 种基金Shenzhen-HK Innovation Cycle Grant under No. ZYB200907080078ARGC General Research Fund (GRF), HK SAR under Grant No. CityU 114609CityU Applied R & D Centre (ARD (Ctr)) under Grant No. 9681001China NSF under Grant No. 61070222/F020802
文摘Two waves of technology are dramatically changing daily life： cloud computing and mobile phones. New cloud computing services such as webmail and content rich data search have emerged. However, in order to use these services, a mobile phone must be able to run new applications and handle high network bandwidth. Worldwide, about 3.45 billion mobile phones are low end phones; they have low bandwidth and cannot run new applications. Because of this technology gap, most mobile users are unable to experience cloud computing services with their thumbs. In this paper, a novel platform, Thumb-in-Cloud, is proposed to bridge this gap. Thumb-in-Cloud consists of two subsystems： Thumb-Machine and Thumb-Gateways. Thumb-Machine is a virtual machine built into a low end phone to enable it to run new applications. Thumb-Gateways can tailor cloud computing services by reformatting and compressing the service to fit the phone ＇ s profile.
