Can you GET me now? Estimating the time-to-first-byte of HTTP transactions with passive measurements

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-121

  Halepovic, Emir ^a   Pang, Jeffrey ^a   Spatscheck, Oliver ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

measurement; performance; round trip time; time to first byte

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PROBING; CELLULAR NETWORK; HTTP TRANSACTION; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; PASSIVE TECHNIQUE; PERFORMANCE; ROUND-TRIP TIME; TIME TO FIRST BYTE; USER EXPERIENCE;

HTTP; MEASUREMENTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84870867576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398776.2398789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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