Measurement-based characterization of a collection of on-line games

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-14

  Chambers, Chris ^a   Feng, Wu Chang ^a   Sahu, Sambit ^b   Saha, Debanjan ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; INTERNET APPLICATION; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MEASUREMENT-BASED; SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77953859961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1330107.1330109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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