Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Transient PCs Everywhere

Mahadev Satyanarayanan; Stephen Smaldone; Benjamin Gilbert; Jan Harkes; Liviu Iftode

1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing

Research Article

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Transient PCs Everywhere

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    title={Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Transient PCs Everywhere},
    proceedings={1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing},
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    year={2012},
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Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Stephen Smaldone
Benjamin Gilbert
Jan Harkes
Liviu Iftode
Year: 2012
Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Transient PCs Everywhere
MOBICLOUD
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_20

Mahadev Satyanarayanan¹, Stephen Smaldone², Benjamin Gilbert¹, Jan Harkes¹, Liviu Iftode²

1: Carnegie Mellon University
2: Rutgers University

Abstract

The convergence of cloud computing with mobile computing opens the door to the creation of new applications and services that can be delivered to users at any time and any place. At the heart of this convergence lies a delicate balance between centralization and decentralization. We explore the forces underlying this balance, and examine the role of virtual machine (VM) technology. We observe that a VM-based model of cloud computing called a offers an approach to “carry-nothing” mobile computing that harnesses the full power of local hardware at the edges of the Internet. In particular, we show how a zero-install Transient PC implementation can safely use local storage.

Published: 2012-10-17

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_20