Quantifying Interactive User Experience on Thin Clients

  • Authors:
  • Niraj Tolia;David G. Andersen;M. Satyanarayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The adequacy of thin-client computing is highly variable and depends on both the application and the available network quality. For intensely interactive applications, a crisp user experience may be hard to guarantee. An alternative—stateless thick clients—preserves many of the benefits of thin-client computing but eliminates its acute sensitivity to network latency.