Wifi-reports: Improving wireless network selection with collaboration

MobiSys'09 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-136

  Pang, Jeffrey ^a   Greenstein, Ben ^b   Kaminsky, Michael ^b   McCoy, Damon ^c   Seshan, Srinivasan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

802.11; Anonymity; Privacy; Reputation; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AP SELECTION; COLLABORATIVE SERVICES; CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; IN-BUILDINGS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; PRACTICAL SYSTEMS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SEATTLE;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; WI-FI;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70450237703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555816.1555830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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