An in-depth study of LTE: Effect of network protocol and application behavior on performance

Computer Communication Review

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-374

  Huang, Junxian ^a   Qian, Feng ^b   Guo, Yihua ^a   Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Mao, Z Morley ^a   Sen, Subhabrata ^b   Spatscheck, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4g; bandwidth estimation; lte; resource underutilization; tcp performance

Indexed keywords

4G; BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION; LTE; RESOURCE UNDERUTILIZATION; TCP PERFORMANCE;

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA TRANSFER; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891599099     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 19435819     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534169.2486006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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