Evros: A service-delivery platform for extending security coverage and IT reach
Bell Labs Technical Journal - Information Technology/Network Security
Energy-efficient data transfer primitives for laptops using mobile handhelds
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networking, systems, and applications on mobile handhelds
Understanding modern device drivers
ASPLOS XVII Proceedings of the seventeenth international conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
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A smartphone can be configured to look like any Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripheral and can be managed remotely through its wireless data connection. By virtue of these features, smartphones are ideal vehicles for the delivery of a variety of brand-new, USB-powered services that support the management and troubleshooting of mobile laptops. We provide examples of such USB services and describe a general architecture for their implementation. The services are easy to deploy, because they can be extended to remote laptops without prior installation of new software, and well-suited for delivery through virtualization in a cloud infrastructure. While our examples target mostly the enterprise, USB services, especially virtualized ones, can easily be tailored to suit a broad set of consumer applications.