Procrastinator: Pacing mobile apps' usage of the network

MobiSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 232-244

  Ravindranath, Lenin ^a   Agarwal, Sharad ^b   Padhye, Jitendra ^b   Riederer, Chris ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

data cost; prefetching; static analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS; DATA COSTS; DEVELOPER EFFORTS; LARGE AMOUNTS; NETWORK DATA; NETWORK OBJECTS; PREFETCHING; SMARTPHONE APPS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903169582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2594368.2594387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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