Web Operating System
Khaled Salah, A Mufti · Research Publication Repository of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) · 2002
computing and the area of operating system is Web Operating System (WOS). The objective of WOS is to deliver the full benefit of the World Wide Web. The WOS will support geographically distributed, highly available, incrementally scalable, and dynamically reconfiguring applications. WOS will include mechanisms for resource discovery, resource collaboration, persistent storage, remote process execution, resource management, authentication and security. This paper presents an overview of a typical WOS. It describes the WOS process, components, communication protocols, and resources. Additionally, the paper discusses all the resolved and unresolved issues and difficulties surrounding the implementation and design of WOS