Evaluation and characterization of available bandwidth probing techniques

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 879-894

  Hu, Ningning ^a   Steenkiste, Peter ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active probing; Available bandwidth; Internet; Network measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ACTIVE PROBING;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 0042025177     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2003.814505     Document Type: Article

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