Internet usage and performance analysis of a rural wireless network in Macha, Zambia

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Johnson, D L ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Almeroth, Kevin ^a   Van Stam, Gertjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Linknet ^*  (Zambia)

Author keywords

Mesh network; P2P; Performance analysis; Proxy; Rural wireless; WWW

Indexed keywords

MESH NETWORK; P2P; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROXY; RURAL WIRELESS; WWW;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERNET; MESH NETWORKING; SATELLITE LINKS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 77956034328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1836001.1836008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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