Understanding the Super-sized traffic of the Super Bowl

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 353-359

  Erman, Jeffrey ^a   Ramakrishnan, K K ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; Characterization; Large venues

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; OUTAGES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; HIGH QUALITY VIDEO; LARGE VENUES; POWER OUTAGE; SUPER BOWL; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER DATA;

WI-FI;

EID: 84890020896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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