Improving performance on the internet

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 44-51

  Leighton, Tom ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MINES;

BROADCAST MEDIAS; CRITICAL FUNCTIONS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; POINT PROBLEMS; POOR PERFORMANCE; WEB CONTENTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 58849110810     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1461928.1461944     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Afergan, M., Wein, J., LaMeyer, A. Experience with some principles for building an Internet-scale reliable system. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Real, Large Distributed Systems 2. (These principles are laid out in more detail in this 2005 research paper.)
2. Akamai Report: The State of the Internet, 2nd quarter, 2008; http://www.akarnai.com/stateoftheinternet/. (These and other recent Internet reliability events are discussed in Akamai's quarterly report.)
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4. Horrigan, J.B. Home Broadband Adoption 2008. Pew Internet and American Life Project; http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP-Broadband-2008.pdf.
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8. TeleGeography. Cable cuts disrupt Internet in Middle East and India. CommsUpdate (Jan. 31, 2008); http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php? article-id=21528.