Adapting to network and client variation using infrastructural proxies: Lessons and perspectives

IEEE Personal Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 10-19

  Fox, Armando ^a,b,c,d   Gribble, Steven D ^a,e   Chawathe, Yatin ^a,f   Brewer, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMPRESSION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

INFRASTRUCTURAL PROXIES;

INTERNET;

EID: 0032138638     PISSN: 10709916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/98.709365     Document Type: Review

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