An empirical analysis of a large-scale mobile cloud storage service

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 14-16-November-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 287-301

  Li, Zhenyu ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^a   Huang, Ningjing ^a   Kaafar, Mohamed Ali ^b   Li, Zhenhua ^c   Zhou, Jianer ^d   Xie, Gaogang ^a   Steenkiste, Peter ^e  

^a ICT of CAS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CNIC CAS   (China)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile cloud storage; TCP performance; User behavior

Indexed keywords

HTTP; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; MOBILE CLOUDS; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; TCP PERFORMANCE; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85000580127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2987443.2987465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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