A measurement study of available bandwidth estimation tools

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 39-44

  Strauss, Jacob ^a   Katabi, Dina ^a   Kaashoek, Frans ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Available bandwidth

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; PACKET NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH (ABW); CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); EXPERIMENTATION; MULTI-ROUTER TRAFFIC GRAPHER (MRTG) DATA; PROBE GAP MODEL (PGM);

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 19544387793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948205.948211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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