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.
Index Terms:
Thin-client computing, Stateless thick clients, Mobile devices
Citation:
Niraj Tolia, David G. Andersen, M. Satyanarayanan, "Quantifying Interactive User Experience on Thin Clients," Computer, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 46-52, Mar. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.101