Offline downloading in China: A comparative study

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 473-486

  Li, Zhenhua ^a   Wilson, Christo ^b   Xu, Tianyin ^c   Liu, Yao ^d,e   Lu, Zhen ^a   Wang, Yinlong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud storage; DTN; Internet; Offline downloading; Smart AP

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; INTERNET; MIDDLEWARE;

BROADBAND PENETRATION; CLOUD STORAGES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; DTN; OFFLINE; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; SMART AP;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 84954136284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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