GPRSWeb: Optimizing the web for GPRS links

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, MobiSys 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 317-330

  Chakravorty, Rajiv ^a   Clark, Andrew ^a   Pratt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADIO TELEPHONE; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DYNAMIC CONTENT; GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICES; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; PROXY ARCHITECTURE; RELIABLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL; SOFTWARE UPDATES; TCP CONNECTIONS;

HTTP;

EID: 84954182735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066116.1066128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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