The performance of remote display mechanisms for thin-client computing

Proceedings of the 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Jae Yang, S ^a   Nieh, Jason ^a   Selsky, Matt ^a   Tiwari, Nikhil ^a  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; LAN ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; REMOTE DISPLAY PROTOCOL; TERMINAL SERVICE; THIN CLIENT ARCHITECTURE; THIN-CLIENT COMPUTING; THIN-CLIENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85084163570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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