Mobile-PC Suite: Using Mobile Phone as
Remote to Control PC Operations
R.S.S.Vishnu Priya , P.Panini Sai, K.Ruth Ramya, N.Chandra Sekhar, K.Venkata Prasad, P.D.Nageswara Rao Dept. of CSE, KLCE
Vaddeswaram, India
Abstract-- The ever increasing functionality in the mobile devices has become the driving force for developing innovative mobile applications that enrich our daily life. This paper is mainly concerned with how traditional application development on desktop platforms is viewed from a different perspective and some of the strategies in mobile application development are applied to this area. The current work envisages the utilization of these Mobile Phones as remote controls to Personal Computers. We focused on developing a software application, based on client-server architecture, that enables a mobile phone user to access the features (which include file navigation, command execution, virtual display, file pusher etc. ) of his/her own PC using Bluetooth by the creation of virtual display of PC. The implementation is done using MIDP of Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME) and deployed using an emulator.
Keywords---Bluetooth, MIDP, CLDC, remote control, home networking, PAN, wireless networks, J2SE, J2ME, Java, handheld devices.
I. INTRODUCTION
Today, wireless technologies like Bluetooth are reshaping the way we live and work. Wireless devices such as cell phones and two-way pagers keep their owners connected to the outside world at anytime from anywhere. They offer great connectivity that other types of devices couldn’t offer. Application development for these wireless devices is going to be in great demand for the upcoming years also. Network programming plays an important role in wireless application development to take advantage of the connectivity these devices have to offer.
Many things that required to be operated from PC, can now be done from a mobile. The J2ME has made it possible to do many things remotely and is now a fact of life. The Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) and Bluetooth technology are two of the most exciting offerings in the wireless industry today. J2ME, most compact of the three
Java platforms, is inherently portable because it shares the Java "write once run anywhere" philosophy and thus enhances developer productivity. Bluetooth is a short-range universal wireless connectivity standard for electronic appliances and mobile devices.
Sun’s Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) offers a great development platform for developing applications for the embedded electronics and mobile devices. In Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) defines a generic "configuration" for a broad range of handheld devices. On top of CLDC, the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) is defined specifically for wireless devices such as cell phones and two-way pagers. Wireless device manufacturers need to implement MIDP in order to support Java applications on their devices. Thus, any mobile application can be built using Mobile Information Device Profile MIDP of the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME) , combined with the Connected Limited Device configuration (CLDC),which serves as a Java runtime environment for today's mobile information devices (MIDs) such as phones and entry level PDAs. The current work envisages the utilization of mobile phones as remote controls to PC’s.
II. OBJECTIVE
The primary objective of the application remote controlled mobile-PC suite is to manage the computer applications executing in the Personal Computer or Laptop using Mobile Phone and to provide all possible means of communication between Mobile Phone and PC. This Mobile Phone should be Bluetooth enabled and the Personal Computer or Laptop should have the Bluetooth Dongle or any other Bluetooth hardware installed.
Once the basic hardware setup is done, a client side application is deployed over the Mobile Phone and server side application is deployed over Personal Computer. The Client application
searches for the Personal Computer and after the Connection establishment and Authorization, application on Mobile Phone starts controlling the applications on the Personal Computer. ARC will also include the capability of displaying the Personal Computer screen on the Mobile Phone using object push service. It could also control the serial port and USB of the computer system.
III. MOBILE-PC SUITE: SYSTEM DESIGN
This application was supposed to provide the features that derive from the connection. They include- Application Remote Control Using Bluetooth, File Sharing & File management, URL-tracking, command execution, Bluetooth Chat. In order to provide these features the connection setup was made possible using JSR-82 and the communication procedure can be explained by the Fig 1.
Fig. 1 Data Flow between Computer and Mobile phone
A. Application Remote Control Using
Bluetooth
This feature makes the mobile efficient enough in controlling the PC remotely. This utility provides the desktop/Laptop virtual screen displayed on the mobile screen also. Thus the mobile itself is appeared to be PC. Thus making the mobile having a multimedia capability virtually equivalent to the PC.
B. File Sharing
The practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images, and video), documents, or electronic books from a mobile device to PC and vice-versa in a most efficient and easy manner. This feature also includes the File Navigation. RSA algorithm is being used for providing the security during the data transfer.
C. URL-tracking
Tracking of URL’S visited from the Users System on request from the administrator with a simple sms. This has its importance in the domains like home, work place etc.
D. Command Execution
This utility includes the remote command execution, where the mobile user is provided with a
text field where he will enter the command that need to be executed on the remote system.
E. Bluetooth Chat
Bluetooth relay chat is the utility that provides the application to chat with different mobiles from the pc. This appears as the online relay chat application but with more advances features like file sharing also from the pc with the users in the chat.
Fig. 2 Remote Controlled Mobile-PC suite architecture
For this system, Fig. 2 shows the flow of the Remote Controlled Mobile-PC suite architecture. The Remote accessible Mobile-PC suite involves the development of the J2ME application for the mobile device and the J2SE application on the server side. The MOBILE-PC SUITE system is developed based on the flow above where the Midlet with various functions acts as the client and it is the J2SE desktop application that accesses the sqlite database on the server side. The complete data access between the mobile and PC is encrypted using RSA algorithm making the system secured. The Midlet residing on the Bluetooth-enabled mobile device provides for access to an authorized users database.
IV. MOBILE-PC SUITE APPLICATION:
IMPLEMENTATION
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