THINC: A virtual display architecture for thin-client computing

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 277-290

  Baratto, Ricardo A ^a   Kim, Leonard N ^a   Nieh, Jason ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

mobility; remote display; thin client computing; virtualization

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY ARCHITECTURE; LOW-LEVEL COMMANDS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; THIN-CLIENT COMPUTING; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP; VIRTUAL DISPLAYS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CARRIER MOBILITY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 84885593539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1095810.1095837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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