Scaling measurement experiments to planet-scale: Ethical, regulatory and cultural considerations

Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-Scale Mobility Measurements, HotPlanet '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Henderson, Tristan ^a   Abdesslem, Fehmi Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DESIGN MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POSITION PAPERS; PRIVACY ISSUE; SCALE-UP; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; WIRELESS NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; MEASUREMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 74049139945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1651428.1651436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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