Can they hear me now?: A case for a client-assisted approach to monitoring wide-area wireless networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 99-115

  Sen, Sayandeep ^a   Yoon, Jongwon ^a   Hare, Joshua ^a   Ormont, Justin ^a   Banerjee, Suman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular networks; client assisted; measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; CELLULAR DATA NETWORKS; CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORKS; CHICAGO; CLIENT ASSISTED; CLIENT DEVICES; COARSE-GRAINED; CONTIGUOUS AREA; GROUND TRUTH; LOW OVERHEAD; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; NETWORK STATISTICS; NEW JERSEY , USA; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; USER EXPERIENCE; WIDE AREA;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; INTERNET; MEASUREMENTS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 82955190601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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