Network traffic locality in a rural African village

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 268-277

  Johnson, David L ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Van Stam, Gertjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Linknet ^*  (Zambia)

Author keywords

Developing regions; Measurement; Rural network; Social network; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; FACEBOOK; FILE SHARING; HUB-AND-SPOKE ARCHITECTURE; INDIRECT COMMUNICATION; INSTANT MESSAGES; INTERNET GATEWAY; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; LOCAL NETWORKS; LOW-BANDWIDTH; NETWORK TRAFFIC; RURAL NETWORK; RURAL VILLAGES; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPARE CAPACITY; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; WEB TRAFFIC;

COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RURAL AREAS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84859069102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160673.2160707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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