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Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies

Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies is a research topic within Hardware and Architecture. Science Explorer counts 5.1k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the performance, optimization, and user experience of thin-client computing systems. It covers topics such as remote display, transparent computing, mobile cloud computing, virtualization, multimedia streaming, quality of experience, and network conditions.

  • Thin-Client Computing
  • Remote Display
  • Transparent Computing
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Virtualization
  • Performance Measurement
  • Interactive User Experience
  • Multimedia Streaming
  • QoE (Quality of Experience)
  • Network Conditions
Research works
5.1k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
500
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies

Which countries lead Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (122 and 94 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 122 works
  2. 2 United States 94 works
  3. 3 India 88 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 42 works
  5. 5 Japan 28 works
  6. 6 Germany 21 works
  7. 7 Spain 15 works
  8. 8 South Korea 14 works
  9. 9 ?? 11 works
  10. 10 Canada 10 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 27.3%United States: 21.1%India: 19.8%Indonesia: 9.5%6 others listed: 22.3%27%largest
China122 · 27.3%United States94 · 21.1%India88 · 19.8%Indonesia42 · 9.5%6 others listed99 · 22.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 15 works
  2. 2 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 4 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 4 works
  4. 4 Intel (United States)United States 3 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 3 works
  6. 6 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 3 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 2 works
  8. 8 Nagoya Institute of TechnologyJapan 2 works
  9. 9 Sathyabama Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 2 works
  10. 10 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 2 works

What are the most cited papers in Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies?

The most cited paper in Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies is "The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing" (Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Paramvir Bahl, Rafaela Cáceres et al., 2009), with 3,699 citations. Next come "Virtual network computing" (1,080) and "The X window system" (927).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Paramvir Bahl, Rafaela Cáceres et al. · IEEE Pervasive Computing Oct 2009 3,699
2 Virtual network computing T.J. Richardson, Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Ken Wood et al. · IEEE Internet Computing 1998 1,080
3 The X window system Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys · ACM Transactions on Graphics Open access Apr 1986 927
4 A brief history of human-computer interaction technology Brad A. Myers · interactions Open access Mar 1998 669
5 Edge server placement in mobile edge computing Shangguang Wang, Yali Zhao, Jinlinag Xu et al. · Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 30 Jun 2018 522
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Sharon (United States), Chennai (India) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Beijing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 25 works
  2. 2 SharonUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 9 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 9 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 8 works
  6. 6 BengaluruIndia 7 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 7 works
  8. 8 PuneIndia 6 works
  9. 9 BandungIndonesia 6 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BeijingCN · 25.3 works1.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies than the world average.

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Is Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Cloud Computing and Remote Desktop Technologies9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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