Ten fallacies and pitfalls on end-to-end available bandwidth estimation

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 272-277

  Jain, Manish ^a   Dovrolis, Constantinos ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active measurements; Available bandwidth; Band width estimation; Measurement tools; Packet pairs and trains

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ACTIVE MEASUREMENTS; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; PACKET PAIRS AND TRAINS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 14944344088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028788.1028825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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