Timecard: Controlling user-perceived delays in server-based mobile applications

SOSP 2013 - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 85-100

  Ravindranath, Lenin ^a,b   Padhye, Jitendra ^b   Mahajan, Ratul ^b   Balakrishnan, Hari ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END TO END DELAY; FIRST RETURNS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NETWORK TRANSFERS; NETWORK TRANSMISSION; PROCESSING TIME; SEVERAL VARIABLES; VARIABLE DELAYS;

ABSTRACTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 84889641245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2517349.2522717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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