Measuring and mitigating web performance bottlenecks in broadband access networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 213-225

  Sundaresan, Srikanth ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a   Teixeira, Renata ^b   Magharei, Nazanin ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Broadband networks; Connection caching; DNS prefetching; Popularity based prefetching; Web performance

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECKS; BROAD-BAND ACCESS NETWORKS; CONNECTION CACHING; CONTENT CACHING; LATENCY OPTIMIZATIONS; PREFETCHING; WEB MEASUREMENTS; WEB PERFORMANCE;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; HOME NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84890045690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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