China's State-coordinated internet infrastructure

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 44-52

  Tan, Zixiang ^a   Foster, William ^b   Goodman, Seymour ^b,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002991076     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/303849.303861     Document Type: Article

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