Virtualization of access network for multihomed wireless thin client

Abstract

An access network is the part of a communications network which connects the multihomed thin client to the immediate service provider. In a thin client computing architecture, application processing is delegated to a remote server rather than running it locally. User input is forwarded to the server, and the rendered images are relayed through a dedicated remote display protocol to the thin client. For this reason availability and seamless guaranteed connectivity to the internet are the key issues in multihomed wireless thin client. Traditional multi homed thin client architecture does not provide seamless service provisioning due to the unavailability of suitable handoff mechanism among the access network. Virtualization of wireless access network can be a promising solution for seamless connectivity to the multihomed thin client. In this paper we focus on the virtualization of access network for the multihomed wireless thin client architecture and the selection of appropriate access network with the special attention to user satisfaction. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.