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Toward Ubiquitous Operating Systems: A Software-Defined Perspective.

In recent years, operating systems have expanded beyond traditional computing systems into the cloud, IoT devices, and other emerging technologies and will soon become ubiquitous. Despite the apparent differences among existing OSs, they all have in common so-called “software-defined” capabilities–n...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 50 - 57
Main Authors: Mei, Hong, Guo, Yao
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jan2018
Subjects:
Ubiquitous computing
Computer operating systems
Computer software
Technological innovations
Internet of things
Virtual machine systems
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:In recent years, operating systems have expanded beyond traditional computing systems into the cloud, IoT devices, and other emerging technologies and will soon become ubiquitous. Despite the apparent differences among existing OSs, they all have in common so-called “software-defined” capabilities–namely, resource virtualization and function programmability.