Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 443-452

  Chen, Jay ^a   Hutchful, David ^b   Thies, William ^b   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

browser extension; connectivity; web acceleration

Indexed keywords

BANGALORE , INDIA; BROWSER EXTENSION; CACHING AND PREFETCHING; CLIENT MACHINE; CONNECTIVITY; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; END USERS; FIREFOX; HTTP TRAFFIC; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY; INTERNAL NETWORK; INTERNET ACCESS; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; OPEN-SOURCE; PLUG-INS; PREFETCHING; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; PROXY-BASED TECHNIQUE; TECHNICAL EXPERTISE; VIDEO CONTENTS; WEB ACCELERATION; WEB ACCESS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HTTP; WORLD WIDE WEB;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 79955154892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963192.1963358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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