Measuring thin-client performance using slow-motion benchmarking

Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Jae Yang, S ^a   Nieh, Jason ^a   Novik, Naomi ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY-STANDARD BENCHMARKS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MULTIMEDIA WORKLOADS; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK PACKET TRACES; PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85084160096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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