Design and implementation of peripheral sharing mechanism on pervasive computing with heterogeneous environment

Abstract

As pervasive computing permeate into user's lives, many embedded devices based on Linux exist around the users. In this circumstance, the heterogeneousness of operating systems causes incompatibility problems in sharing peripherals since the users and the devices have a different operating system. In this paper, we propose a USB Cross-platform Extension to share peripherals in a heterogeneous environment via a TCP/IP network. Using our approach, the users can access remote peripherals with different operating systems as if they were attached to a local computer. According to our evaluation results, our approach has some overhead, but sufficient performance for practical usage.