Performance optimizations for wireless wide-area networks: Comparative study and experimental evaluation

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 159-173

  Chakravorty, Rajiv ^a   Banerjee, Suman ^b   Rodriguez, Pablo ^c   Chesterfield, Julian ^a   Pratt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3G; CDMA 2000; Cellular; Cross layer Interactions; GPRS; HTTP; Multi layer Performance Optimizations; Proxy; TCP; UMTS

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; HTTP; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; WEB BROWSERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

3G; CDMA 2000; CELLULAR WIRELESS MEDIUM; CROSS-LAYER INTERACTIONS; GPRS; MULTI-LAYER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION; PROXY; TCP; UMTS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 11244336424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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