Obtaining in-context measurements of cellular network performance

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 287-300

  Gember, Aaron ^a   Akella, Aditya ^a   Pang, Jeffrey ^b   Varshavsky, Alexander ^b   Caceres, Ramon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

active measurement; cellular network performance; device context

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; ACTIVE MEASUREMENT; AVERAGE THROUGHPUT; CELLULAR NETWORK; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEVICE CONTEXT; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; MACRO-ENVIRONMENT; NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS; NETWORK USAGE; USER INTERACTION;

NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84870917790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398776.2398807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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