vMobiDesk: Desktop Virtualization for Mobile Operating System

Abstract

With the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for mobile devices emerges as one of the key concept in mobile cloud computing (MCC). However, existing VDI products are originally designed for personal computer operating systems (e.g. Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu, etc.). The user experience is greatly degraded while viewing and operating a PC desktop from a smartphone or a tablet. In this paper, we propose techniques to virtualize the desktop of mobile operating systems (e.g. Android, iOS, Winphone, etc.) for mobile users and we have implemented a prototype system on Android which is one of the most popular mobile operating systems. The experimental results show that our system enables mobile users to achieve almost the same experience as in the local while viewing and operating the remote mobile desktops.