Speed testing without speed tests: Estimating achievable download speed from passive measurements

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 424-430

  Gerber, Alexandre ^a   Pang, Jeffrey ^a   Spatscheck, Oliver ^a   Venkataraman, Shobha ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3G; Measurement; Passive; Throughput; UMTS; Wireless

Indexed keywords

THROUGHPUT; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

3G; NETWORK LEVEL; NETWORK PROBLEMS; PASSIVE; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SPEED TEST; USERS' EXPERIENCES;

SPEED;

EID: 78650893939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1879141.1879196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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