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A Lightweight Approach to Access to Wireless Network without Operating System Support

Yonghua Xiong^a,b,d, Jinhua She^a,b,c, Keyuan Jiang^d

^a School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China;
^b Hubei key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems, Wuhan, China;
^c School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan;
^d Department of Computer Information Technology & Graphics, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, USA

* Corresponding Author: Yonghua Xiong,

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing 2018, 24(2), 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/10798587.2017.1280262

Abstract

Wireless network is crucial for the Mobile Transparent Computing (MTC), in which a mobile device without any Operating System (OS) support needs to load the demanded OSes and applications through accessing the wireless network connection. In this paper, a lightweight approach based on the Boot Management System (BMS) was proposed to ensure the wireless network connection before booting OS. In BMS, the Virtual File System (VFS) technology was used to drive the wireless network card and establish a stable network connection. A prototype of the BMS was tested on ARM11 hardware platform and the results demonstrate the validity of the BMS.

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