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Sharing is caring: so where are your data?

Published: 30 January 2008 Publication History

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The networking research community lacks a tradition of sharing experimental data, or using such data for reproducing results. But are we really that bad? Are we worse than researchers in other fields? And if so, how can we do better?

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cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 38, Issue 1
January 2008
54 pages
ISSN:0146-4833
DOI:10.1145/1341431
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Published: 30 January 2008
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  1. data archiving
  2. experimental method
  3. measurement
  4. network data

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