Challenges for mobile remote access to desktop and web resources

Mobile remote access to personal computers and/or Web resources (i.e. Web contents and services) has the potential to enable important changes to the work practices of both businesses and individuals. There have been a number of attempts from both academic researchers as well as the industrial sector to develop mobile systems that can remotely access workstations or Web resources; however, a global acceptance of these systems has not been achieved yet. In this paper we review a decade of progress in the mobile remote access research area. We also highlight some of the open research issues and challenges that still exist.

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