Analysis of a mixed-use urban WiFi network: When metropolitan becomes neapolitan

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-97

  Afanasyev, Mikhail ^a   Chen, Tsuwei ^b   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^a   Snoeren, Alex C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

3G CELLULAR; ACCESS NETWORKS; ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES; CALIFORNIA; CLIENT DEVICES; MESH NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES; MOBILITY PATTERNS; PERFORMANCE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WI-FI DEPLOYMENTS; WI-FI HOTSPOTS; WI-FI NETWORKS; WIFI MESHES;

INTERNET; SEMICONDUCTING INTERMETALLICS; WI-FI;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 77957936138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1452520.1452531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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