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....regular Internet users do not have access to network internals, adding to the complexity of understanding, characterizing, and modeling the performance of the Internet. While the problems of characterizing end to end latency and bottleneck link capacity have received a lot of attention [1] [6], the question that is of most interest to applications is how much bandwidth is available to them along an end to end Internet path. What are good techniques for estimating available bandwidth and what factors affect the measurement accuracy are still open questions. Those questions are the focus ....

....University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890 USA (e mail: hnn cs.cmu.edu) P. Steenkiste is with the School of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890 USA. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109 JSAC.2003.814505 [1] [6]. Passive measurement tools use the trace history of existing data transmission. While potentially very efficient and accurate, their scope is limited to network paths that have recently carried user traffic. Active probing, on the other hand, can explore the entire network. The packet pair ....

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....users do not have access to network internals, adding to the complexity of understanding, characterizing, and modeling the performance of the Internet. While the problems of characterizing end to end latency and bottleneck link capacity have received a lot of attention [14] 8] 9] 11] 6] [15], the path property that is probably of most interest to applications is the throughput an application can expect on a path through the network. In this paper, we focus on measuring the available bandwidth, which we define as the difference between the link capacity and the competing traffic ....

....which we define as the difference between the link capacity and the competing traffic volume on the link that limits end to end throughput. Techniques for estimating available bandwidth can be classified into two categories: passive measurement [20] 21] and active probing [14] 8] 9] 11] 6] [15]. Passive measurement tools use the trace history of existing data transfers. While potentially very efficient and accurate, their scope is limited to network paths that have recently carried user traffic. Active probing, on the other hand, can explore the entire network. Among the active probing ....

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....and TCP throughput. shows that pathload is not network intrusive. The paper concludes with a number of applications in 9. 2. RELATED WORK Although there are several bandwidth estimation tools, most of them measure capacity rather than avail bw. Specifically, pathchar [18] clink [13] pchar [27], and the tailgating technique of [24] measure per hop capacity. Also, bprobe [10] nettimer [23] pathrate [12] and the PBM methodology [36] measure end to end capacity. Allman and Paxson noted that an avail bw estimate can give a more appropriate value for the ssthresh variable, improving the ....

B. A. Mah. pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics. http://www.employees.org/#bmah/Software/pchar/, Feb. 1999.

....dispersion of long packet trains is inversely proportional to the available bandwidth. However, as we show in this paper, this is not true. Finally, several tools that measure the capacity of every link in a path were recently developed: JacobsoWs pathchar [13] Downey s clink [14] Mah s pchar [15]; for a study of these tools see [16] The underlying idea here is not based on the dispersion of packet pairs or trains, but on the variation of the one way delay as the packet size increases. Unfortunately, because these tools require the generation of ICMP replies from the routers, which is a ....

B. A. Mah, "pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics," http://www. employees.org/~bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....in different timescales and operating conditions, and illustrates that pathload does not add significant load to the network [1] II. Related work There are several bandwidth estimation tools, but most of them focus on capacity, rather than avail bw. Specifically, pathchar [2] clink [3] pchar [4], and the tailgating technique of [5] measure per hop capacity. Also, bprobe [6] nettimer [7] pathrate [8] and the PBM methodology [9] measure end to end capacity. Another related throughput metric is the BulkTransfer Capacity (BTC) 10] The BTC of a path in a certain time period is the ....

B. A. Mah, "pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics," http://www.employees.org/bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....is not directly related to the dispersion of packet trains. In [6] we incorrectly stated that the bprobe also makes this assumption. Finally, several tools that measure the capacity of every link in a path were recently developed: Jacobson s pathchar [11] Downey s clink [7] Mah s pchar [15]. For a study of such tools, see [8] The underlying idea here is not based on the dispersion of packet pairs or trains, but on the variation of the one way delay as the packet size increases. Unfortunately, because these tools require the generation of ICMP replies from the routers, which is a ....

B. A. Mah. pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics. http://www.employees.org/bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....dispersion of long packet trains is inversely proportional to the available bandwidth. However, as we show in this paper, this is not true. Finally, several tools that measure the capacity of every link in a path were recently developed: Jacobson s pathchar [14] Downey s clink [15] Mah s pchar [16]; for a study of these tools see [17] The underlying idea here is not based on the dispersion of packet pairs or trains, but on the variation of the one way delay as the packet size increases. Unfortunately, because these tools require the generation of ICMP replies from the routers, which is a ....

B.A.Mah, "pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics, " http://www.employees.org/bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....equals the capacity of the slowest hop along the path between the two hosts. Thus, by definition, bottleneck link bandwidth is a physical property of the network that remains constant over time for an individual path. Although various bottleneck link bandwidth measurement tools are available [9, 11, 4, 10], for a number of reasons that are beyond the scope of this paper, all of these tools were unsatisfactory for our purposes. Hence, we developed our own tool (called SProbe) based on the same underlying packet pair dispersion technique as many of the above mentioned tools. Unlike these other tools, ....

B. A. Mah. pchar: A tool for measuring internet path characteristics. http://www.employees.org/bmah/ Software/pchar/, 2001.

....Zealand to the USA can even reach a RTT of 120ms or greater. A. Implementations There have been a number of example implementations of single packet techniques. The most common implementation is Jacobson s pathchar [7] Two independent clones of Jacobson s pathchar tool are clink [9] and pchar [10]. Each of these use slightly di erent algorithms on how to decide when the SORTT has been discovered, but each uses the same basic algorithm described. S D L1 L2 L3 Figure 5. Packet Pair measurement through the limiting link. VI. Packet Pair Models Packet Pair models attempt to estimate the ....

B.A. Mah, \pchar: A Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics, " http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....dispersion of long packet trains is inversely proportional to the available bandwidth. However, as we show in this paper, this is not true. Finally, several tools that measure the capacity of every link in a path were recently developed: Jacobson s pathchar [13] Downey s clink [14] Mah s pchar [15]; for a study of these tools see [16] The underlying idea here is not based on the dispersion of packet pairs or trains, but on the variation of the one way delay as the packet size increases. Unfortunately, because these tools require the generation of ICMP replies from the routers, which is a ....

B. A. Mah, "pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics," http://www.employees.org/bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....dispersion of long packet trains is inversely proportional to the available bandwidth. However, as we show in this paper, this is not true. Finally, several tools that measure the capacity of every link in a path were recently developed: Jacobson s pathchar [13] Downey s clink [14] Mah s pchar [15]; for a study of these tools see [16] The underlying idea here is not based on the dispersion of packet pairs or trains, but on the variation of the one way delay as the packet size increases. Unfortunately, because these tools require the generation of ICMP replies from the routers, which is a ....

B. A. Mah, "pchar: a Tool for Measuring Internet Path Characteristics," http://www.employees.org/#bmah/Software/pchar/, June 2000.

....there has been a significant interest in techniques that can measure the link capacities, a.k.a. link rates, of an IP path. The first description of such a measurement methodology was given by Bellovin in [3] Follow up research papers and variations of pathchar are Downey s clink [4] Mah s pchar [5], and Lai s tailgating technique in nettimer [6] The motivation for such per hop capacity estimation tools is that they can be used, mainly by network managers, to debug, monitor, and characterize network paths. These tools use a common underlying measurement probing. The key assumption in VPS ....

.... (A) Lai [11] End to End Capacity Packet Pairs sprobe Saroiu [23] End to End Capacity Packet Pairs pathrate Dovrolis [14] End to End Capacity Packet Pairs Trains pathchar Jacobson [2] Per Hop Capacity Variable Packet Size clink Downey [24] Per Hop Capacity Variable Packet Size pchar Mah [5] Per Hop Capacity Variable Packet Size nettimer (B) Lai [6] Per Hop Capacity Variable Packet Size (tailgating) pipechar Guojun [25] End to End Bottleneck Packet Trains cprobe Carter [16] End to End Avail BW Packet Trains pathload Jain Dovrolis [19] End to End Avail BW Self Loading Periodic ....

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....dovrolis cc.gatech.edu bmah packetdesign.com Starting from Jacobson s pathchar [1] there has been a significant interest in techniques that can measure the link capacities, a.k.a. link rates, of an IP path. Follow up research papers and variations of pathchar are Downey s clink [2] Mah s pchar [3], and Lai s tailgating technique in nettimer [4] The motivation for such per hop capacity estimation tools is that they can be used, mainly by network managers, to debug, monitor, and characterize network paths. These tools use a common underlying measurement methodology, which we refer to as ....

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