Usage patterns in an urban WiFi network

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1359-1372

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

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mesh networking; WiFi

Indexed keywords

3G CELLULAR; ACCESS DEVICES; ACCESS NETWORK; ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; CLIENT DEVICES; DEVICE CLASS; MESH NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; MOBILITY PATTERN; NETWORK USAGE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; SMART PHONES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN MESH NETWORKS; USAGE PATTERNS; WI FI NETWORKS; WI-FI DEPLOYMENT; WIFI HOTSPOTS; WIFI MESH;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; WI-FI;

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 77958151364     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2040087     Document Type: Article

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