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Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets. / Bury, Sara; Ishmael, Johnathan; Race, Nicholas J.P. et al.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2009. p. 19-24 (U-NET '09).

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Bury, S, Ishmael, J, Race, NJP, Rouncefield, M & Smith, P 2009, Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets. in Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities. U-NET '09, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/1659029.1659035

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Bury, S., Ishmael, J., Race, N. J. P., Rouncefield, M., & Smith, P. (2009). Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities (pp. 19-24). (U-NET '09). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1659029.1659035

Vancouver

Bury S, Ishmael J, Race NJP, Rouncefield M, Smith P. Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities. New York, NY, USA: ACM. 2009. p. 19-24. (U-NET '09). doi: 10.1145/1659029.1659035

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Bury, Sara ; Ishmael, Johnathan ; Race, Nicholas J.P. et al. / Reconciling community resource requirements in U-Nets. Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on User-provided networking: challenges and opportunities. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2009. pp. 19-24 (U-NET '09).

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