Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-48

  Schneider, Fabian ^a   Feldmann, Anja ^a   Krishnamurthy, Balachander ^b   Willinger, Walter ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clickstream analysis; Feature popularity; Http; Network measurement; Online social networks; Session characteristics; User interactions

Indexed keywords

CLICKSTREAM ANALYSIS; FEATURE POPULARITY; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SESSION CHARACTERISTICS; USER INTERACTION;

HTTP; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

SURVEYS;

EID: 84877777999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1644893.1644899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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