Characterizing mobility and network usage in a corporate wireless local-area network

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 303-316

  Balazinska, Magdalena ^a   Castro, Paul ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILITY CHARACTERISTICS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; UNIVERSITY CAMPUS; USER MOBILITY PATTERN; WIRELESS UNIVERSITY CAMPUS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84976582475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066116.1066127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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