Human-Centric Composite-Quality Modeling and Assessment for Virtual Desktop Clouds

There are several motivations, such as mobility, cost, and secu- rity, that are behind the trend of traditional desktop users transi- tioning to thin-client-based virtual desktop clouds （VDCs）. Such a trend has led to the rising importance of human-centric performance modeling and assessment within user communities that are increasingly making use of desktop virtualization. In this paper, we present a novel reference architecture and its eas- ily deployable implementation for modeling and assessing objec- tive user quality of experience （QoE） in VDCs. This architec- ture eliminates the need for expensive, time-consuming subjec- tive testing and incorporates finite-state machine representa- tions for user workload generation. It also incorporates slow-mo- tion benchmarking with deep-packet inspection of application task performance affected by QoS variations. In this way, a ＂composite-quality＂ metric model of user QoE can be derived. We show how this metric can be customized to a particular user group profile with different application sets and can be used to a） identify dominant performance indicators and troubleshoot bottlenecks and b） obtain both absolute and relative objective user QoE measurements needed for pertinent selection of thin-client encoding configurations in VDCs. We validate our composite-quality modeling and assessment methodology by us- ing subjective and objective user QoE measurements in a re- al-world VDC called VDPilot, which uses RDP and PCoIP thin-client protocols. In our case study, actual users are pres- ent in virtual classrooms within a regional federated university system.

Content Addressable Storage Optimization for Desktop Virtualization Based Disaster Backup Storage System

This paper proposes a content addres sable storage optimization method, VDeskCAS, for desktop virtualization storage based disaster backup storage system. The method implements a blocklevel storage optimization, by employing the algorithms of chunking image file into blocks, the blockffmger calculation and the block dedup li cation. A File system in Use Space （FUSE） based storage process for VDeskCAS is also introduced which optimizes current direct storage to suit our content addressable storage. An interface level modification makes our system easy to extend. Experiments on virtual desktop image files and normal files verify the effectiveness of our method and above 60% storage volume decrease is a chieved for Red Hat Enterprise Linux image files. Key words： disaster backup; desktop virtualization; storage optimization; content addressable storage

Efficient and Flexible 3D Virtual Desktop System in the Windows Environment

As personal computers have been recently improved in performance,a multi-tasking of running several applications at the same time has been generalized. Since only one task space is provided for performing such tasks in the Windows operating system,a number of computer users feel inconvenience.In this paper,we suggest a 3D Virtual Desktop System which can show a process of switching task spaces in 3D motion using DirectX. Our system aims to make up for the weak points in the Windows operating system,and to provide a computer user with more spaces for performing several tasks as well as the intuitive UI(User Interface),such as Compiz of Linux.

Research on technology of desktop virtualization based on SPICE protocol and its improvement solutions

Increasingly mature cloud computing technology promotes virtual desktop technology, which can solve many problems existing in traditional computing models. However, virtual desktop solutions introduce the thorny problem of how to deliver a real desktop experience to users, as if they are using it locally, especially when playing video. The SPICE （simple protocol for independent computing environments） virtual desktop solution provides several image compression algorithms to address this problem with the purpose of making virtual desktops as real as possible. Although different compression algorithms can contribute their own abilities to different images to a large extent, switching between them is a big problem that consumes a large amount of resources to detect the different type of image and also causes jitter of the virtual desktop. This paper proposes a new solution, called SPICEx, using the JPEG2000 compression algorithm with dynamic compression ratios to solve the problem and finally validates that the performance is better than that of SPICE. With better quality of user experience and also reducing bandwidth consumption, SPICEx solution is meaningful in virtual desktop fields and can be widely used.