Improving the performance of distributed virtual environment systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 637-649

  Morillo, Pedro ^a   Orduña, Juan M ^a   Fernández, Marcos ^a   Duato, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed applications; Distributed network graphics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE; SERVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORK GRAPHICS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 22944451456     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2005.83     Document Type: Article

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