First impressions on the state of cellular data connectivity in India

Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, ACM DEV 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Koradia, Zahir ^a   Mannava, Goutham ^b   Raman, Aravindh ^b   Aggarwal, Gaurav ^b   Ribeiro, Vinay ^b   Seth, Aaditeshwar ^b   Ardon, Sebastian ^c   Mahanti, Anirban ^c   Triukose, Sipat ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellular data networks

Indexed keywords

THROUGHPUT; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ACTIVE MEASUREMENT; CELLULAR DATA NETWORKS; CELLULAR NETWORK DESIGNS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY; LATENCY PERFORMANCE; SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS; STANDARD PROTOCOLS;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84893361680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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