Abstract
The shift of the usually non-trivial task of emulation of obsolete software environments from the end user to specialized providers through Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) helps to simplify digital preservation and access strategies. End users interact with emulators remotely through standardized (web-)clients on their various devices. Besides offering relevant advantages, EaaS makes emulation a networked service introducing new challenges like remote rendering, stream synchronization and real time requirements. Various objectives, like fidelity, performance or authenticity can be required depending on the actual purpose and user expectations. Various original environments and complex artefacts have different needs regarding expedient and/or authentic performance.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
von Suchodoletz, D., Rechert, K., Valizada, I.: Towards emulation-as-a-service – cloud services for versatile digital object access. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference, IDCC 2008. Amsterdam (2013)
Chandra, S., Biehl, J.T., Boreczky, J., Carter, S., Rowe, L.A.: Understanding screen contents for building a high performance, real time screen sharing system. In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. MM 2012, pp. 389–398. ACM, New York (2012)
Baratto, R.A., Kim, L.N., Nieh, J.: Thinc: a virtual display architecture for thin-client computing. SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 39, 277–290 (2005)
Nieh, J., Yang, S.J., Novik, N.: Measuring thin-client performance using slow-motion benchmarking. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 21, 87–115 (2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
von Suchodoletz, D., Rechert, K. (2013). Efficient Access to Emulation-as-a-Service – Challenges and Requirements. In: Aalberg, T., Papatheodorou, C., Dobreva, M., Tsakonas, G., Farrugia, C.J. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_48
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40501-3_48
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-40500-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-40501-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)