Client bandwidth: The forgotten metric of online storage providers

IEEE Pacific RIM Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 543-548

  Bergen, Andreas ^a   Coady, Yvonne ^a   McGeer, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED COSTS; DATA CENTERS; LOWER COST; NETWORK CAPABILITY;

NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054770345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACRIM.2011.6032952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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