Improving the browsing experience in a bandwidth limited environment through traffic management

Information Technology for Development

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 306-318

  Odinma, A C ^a   Butakov, S ^b   Grakhov, E ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b Solbridge International School of Business   (South Korea)

Author keywords

content analysis; developing countries; infrastructure management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858328829     PISSN: 02681102     EISSN: 15540170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2011.568224     Document Type: Article

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