Performance issues with General Packet Radio Service

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 266-281

  Chakravorty, Rajiv ^a   Pratt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GPRS; HTTP; Proxy; TCP; Wireless

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040081776     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/jcn.2002.6596651     Document Type: Article

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