Title: Transparent mobile service terminal: an overview

Authors: Yihong Qi; Wei Yu; Rongrong Zhang; George Shaker; Perry Jarmuszewski; George Mankaruse

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Abstract: It is a consensus that ubiquitous/pervasive computing paradigm will be a mainstream in the future of computing devices. Based on the extended von Neumann architecture, transparent computing is one of the most promising means of realising ubiquitous/pervasive computing. Transparent mobile service terminal (TMST), being a handheld mobile device powered by transparent computing system, is a natural fit for the client terminal of the transparent computing system. TMST uses transparent network OS (TNOS) as the core of its system, thus enjoys numerous benefits such as service-oriented, light-loaded, rich functionality, high security, improved manageability, high efficiency and enhanced user experience. In this paper, a conceptual description of the innovative technologies behind the TMST is presented.

Keywords: ubiquitous computing; pervasive computing; transparent computing; streaming services; mobile phones; cell phones; transparent mobile service terminal; TMST; handheld mobile devices; transparent network operating system; mobile services; cloud computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCC.2012.049764

International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2012 Vol.1 No.4, pp.302 - 311

Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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