Web browsing performance of wireless thin-client computing

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 68-79

  Yang, S Jae ^a   Nieh, Jason ^a   Krishnappa, Shilpa ^a   Mohla, Aparna ^a   Sajjadpour, Mahdi ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

thin client computing; web performance; wireless and mobility

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; PACKET LOSS RATES; THIN-CLIENT APPROACH; THIN-CLIENT COMPUTING; THIN-CLIENT SYSTEMS; WEB PERFORMANCE; WIRED CONNECTION; WIRELESS AND MOBILITY;

APPLICATIONS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 84880453489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/775152.775163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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