In this section it’s pointed some ideas do to in the future in order to continue this project.
Security issues and discovery mechanisms were not handled in this initial work but are planned to be incorporated. It is necessary to guarantee the privacy of the data handled in the desktop computer, pre- serve the integrity of the desktop computer against any malicious attack from the user. To accomplish this, virtual machines, such as, sandboxes, could be integrated in FileCloud, this way, protecting the system. The message exchanged between the mobile devices should also be secured, with an cryp- tographic algorthim, for example, Public Key cryptography (also known as Asymmetric cryptography). This way, the messages exchanged are secured against possible attackers.
As for the resource discovery module, some work should be done in order to improve the discovery and selection of the PCs available on the neighborhood. For example, as illustrated in Figure 6.1, the
location of the PCs should be take into account since the user don’t want FileCloud to select a PC on the next room while there are other PCs available for the task in his room.
Furthermore, more exhaustive tests with more users should be made in order to evaluate the system, though the current results are indicative of the gains that can be obtained.
The use of FileCloud in public places, for example kiosks, can also be studied. Currently, kiosks normally provide computers with access to a web browser, not having available applications for the users to perform some kind of tasks, such as image editing. Though, having FileCloud installed on these computers, the users could have, at least, access to the Google Docs editors. But more work could be done in this field. With the use of cloud applications, we could use the web browser to run these applications, providing the user more options of performs their tasks in these public places.
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