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Networked life : 20 questions and answers
- Title
- Networked life : 20 questions and answers / Mung Chiang, Princeton University.
- Author
- Chiang, Mung
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 478 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Electronic data processing > Distributed processing > Mathematical models
- Computer engineering > Textbooks
- Internet and families
- Internet users
- Computer networks > Mathematical models
- Right to Internet access
- Wireless communication systems > Mathematical models
- Information technology > Mathematical models
- Internet > Mathematical models
- Online social networks > Mathematical models
- Communication > Network analysis
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- What makes CDMA work for my smartphone? -- How does Google sell ad spaces? -- How does Google rank webpages? -- How does Netflix recommend movies? -- When can I trust an average rating on Amazon? -- Why does Wikipedia even work? -- How do I viralize a YouTube video and tip a Groupon deal? -- How do I influence people on Facebook and Twitter? -- Can I really reach anyone in six steps? -- Does the internet have an Achilles' heel? -- Why do AT & T and Verizon Wireless charge me $10 a GB? -- How can I pay less for each GB? -- How does traffic get through the Internet? -- Why doesn't the Internet collapse under congestion? -- How can Skype and BitTorrent be free? -- What's inside the cloud of iCloud? -- IPTV and Netflix : how can the Internet support video? -- Why is WiFi faster at home than at a hotspot? -- Why am I getting only a few % of the advertised 4G speed? -- Is it fair that my neighbor's iPad downloads faster?
- Call Number
- JBE 18-1245
- ISBN
- 9781107024946
- 1107024943
- LCCN
- 2012288329
- OCLC
- 811554875
- Author
- Chiang, Mung, author.
- Title
- Networked life : 20 questions and answers / Mung Chiang, Princeton University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBE 18-1245