Virtualized Screen: A Third Element for Cloud-Mobile Convergence

  • Authors:
  • Yan Lu;Shipeng Li;Huifeng Shen

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia;Microsoft Research Asia;Microsoft Research Asia

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Editor's NoteMobile and cloud computing have emerged as the new computing platforms and are converging into a powerful cloud–mobile computing platform. This article envisions a virtualized screen as a new dimension in such a platform to further optimize the overall computing experience for users. In a virtualized screen, screen rendering is done in the cloud, and delivered as images to the client for interactive display. This enables thin-client mobile devices to enjoy many computationally intensive and graphically rich services. Technical challenges are discussed and addressed. Two novel cloud-mobile applications, Cloud Browser and Cloud Phone, are presented to demonstrate the advantages of such a virtualized screen.—Wenjun Zeng