Identifying performance bottlenecks in CDNs through TCP-level monitoring

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up the Stack, W-MUST'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-54

  Sun, Peng ^a   Yu, Minlan ^a   Freedman, Michael J ^a   Rexford, Jennifer ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

content distribution network; performance bottleneck; tcp

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; COARSE-GRAINED; CONGESTION WINDOW; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; CONVENTIONAL MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK CONGESTIONS; NETWORK PATHS; NETWORK STACK; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; PLANETLAB; SERVER LOGS; SERVER SELECTION; TCP;

PACKET LOSS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

MONITORING;

EID: 80053038839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2018602.2018615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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