MPEG-4 solutions for virtualizing RDP-based applications

Bojan Joveski; Mihai Mitrea; Rama-Rao Ganji

doi:10.1117/12.2042342

18 February 2014 MPEG-4 solutions for virtualizing RDP-based applications

Bojan Joveski, Mihai Mitrea, Rama-Rao Ganji

Proceedings Volume 9030, Mobile Devices and Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications 2014; 90300A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042342
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The present paper provides the proof-of-concepts for the use of the MPEG-4 multimedia scene representations (BiFS and LASeR) as a virtualization tool for RDP-based applications (e.g. MS Windows applications). Two main applicative benefits are thus granted. First, any legacy application can be virtualized without additional programming effort. Second, heterogeneous mobile devices (different manufacturers, OS) can collaboratively enjoy full multimedia experiences. From the methodological point of view, the main novelty consists in (1) designing an architecture allowing the conversion of the RDP content into a semantic multimedia scene-graph and its subsequent rendering on the client and (2) providing the underlying scene graph management and interactivity tools. Experiments consider 5 users and two RDP applications (MS Word and Internet Explorer), and benchmark our solution against two state-of-the-art technologies (VNC and FreeRDP). The visual quality is evaluated by six objective measures (e.g. PSNR<37dB, SSIM<0.99). The network traffic evaluation shows that: (1) for text editing, the MPEG-based solutions outperforms the VNC by a factor 1.8 while being 2 times heavier then the FreeRDP; (2) for Internet browsing, the MPEG solutions outperform both VNC and FreeRDP by factors of 1.9 and 1.5, respectively. The average round-trip times (less than 40ms) cope with real-time application constraints.

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Bojan Joveski, Mihai Mitrea, and Rama-Rao Ganji "MPEG-4 solutions for virtualizing RDP-based applications", Proc. SPIE 9030, Mobile Devices and Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications 2014, 90300A (18 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2042342

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