Broadband Internet performance: A view from the gateway

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 134-145

  Sundaresan, Srikanth ^a   De Donato, Walter ^b   Feamster, Nick ^a   Teixeira, Renata ^c   Crawford, Sam ^d   Pescapè, Antonio ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SamKnows   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access networks; Benchmarking; BISMark; Broadband networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; BISMARK; BROADBAND INTERNET; BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS; FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION; GATEWAY DEVICES; HOME GATEWAY; HOME NETWORKS; INTERNET ACCESS; NETWORK ACCESS; POLICY MAKERS; TRAFFIC-SHAPING;

BENCHMARKING; BROADBAND NETWORKS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 80053134013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018436.2018452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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