A QoE perspective on sizing network buffers

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 333-346

  Hohlfeld, Oliver ^a   Pujol, Enric ^b   Ciucu, Florin ^c   Feldmann, Anja ^b   Barford, Paul ^d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer size; Bufferbloat; QoE

Indexed keywords

WEB BROWSERS;

APPLICATION QUALITY; BUFFER SIZES; BUFFERBLOAT; END-USER APPLICATIONS; END-USER EXPERIENCE; INTERNET SERVICES; OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE);

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84910154789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663716.2663730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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