Dissecting web latency in Ghana

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 241-247

  Zaki, Yasir ^a   Chen, Jay ^a   Pötsch, Thomas ^b   Ahmad, Talal ^a   Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developing countries; DNS; HAR; Web

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOTTLES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HTTP; WEBSITES;

DEVELOPING REGIONS; DNS SERVER; END TO END LATENCIES; NETWORK PENETRATIONS; QUERY RESOLUTION; TLS/SSL; WEB ACCESS; WEB PERFORMANCE;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84910131533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663716.2663748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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