Advancing the state of home networking

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 62-71

  Edwards, W Keith ^a   Grinter, Rebecca E ^a   Mahajan, Ratul ^b,c   Wetherall, David ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME NETWORKING; HUMAN INHABITANTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79959941986     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1953122.1953143     Document Type: Article

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