Pervasive Personal Computing in an Internet Suspend/Resume System
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Ben Gilbert, Matt Toups, Niraj Harish Tolia, Ajay Surie, David R. O’Hallaron, Adam Wolbach, Jan Harkes, Adrian Perrig, David J. Farber, Michael A. Kozuch, Casey J. Helfrich, Partho Nath, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla · IEEE Internet Computing · 2007
The Internet suspend/resume model of mobile computing cuts the tight binding between PC state and PC hardware. By layering a virtual machine on distributed storage, ISR lets the VM encapsulate execution and user customization state; distributed storage then transports that state across space and time. This article explores the implications of ISR for an infrastructure-based approach to mobile computing. It reports on experiences with three versions of ISR and describes work in progress toward the OpenISR version