Monitoring access link capacity using TFRC probe Export

@article{citeulike:1338099, abstract = {Accurate estimation of network characteristics based on end-to-end measurements is an important and challenging problem. With the increasing variety and sophistication of Internet access methods, the mobility of the users and the need for seamless handoff across them, monitoring access link capacity becomes critical for efficient multimedia delivery. In fact, this allows the multimedia server to properly adjust its sending rate to the rapidly changing access speed of the mobile client. This problem is challenging because most of the existing capacity monitoring schemes are active, like Pathrate (and therefore, introduce extra overhead on the bandwidth limited access link). Moreover, the access link is often asymmetric (e.g. ADSL, 1xRTT, etc.) thus preventing the use of round-trip monitoring schemes such as Pathchar and CapProbe. In this study, we propose and evaluate a passive, one-way link capacity monitoring tool called TFRC Probe. With TFRC Probe the source can monitor the forward direction capacity of both asymmetric and symmetric access links, and can rapidly and accurately adapt its transmissions rate accordingly. We validate TFRC Probe with both simulation and testbed experiments, and show that TFRC Probe is a very flexible tool that can accurately track frequent changes in access capacity.}, author = {Chen, Ling-Jyh and Sun, Tony and Yang, Guang and Sanadidi, M. Y. and Gerla, Mario}, booktitle = {Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks}, citeulike-article-id = {1338099}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TYP-4GYH6K4-2/2/e47418f702caf19295757b73bfbf3325}, day = {19}, journal = {Computer Communications}, keywords = {measurement, tfrc}, month = {June}, number = {10}, pages = {1605--1613}, posted-at = {2007-05-28 05:37:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Monitoring access link capacity using TFRC probe}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TYP-4GYH6K4-2/2/e47418f702caf19295757b73bfbf3325}, volume = {29}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1338099 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1338099 N2 - Accurate estimation of network characteristics based on end-to-end measurements is an important and challenging problem. With the increasing variety and sophistication of Internet access methods, the mobility of the users and the need for seamless handoff across them, monitoring access link capacity becomes critical for efficient multimedia delivery. In fact, this allows the multimedia server to properly adjust its sending rate to the rapidly changing access speed of the mobile client. This problem is challenging because most of the existing capacity monitoring schemes are active, like Pathrate (and therefore, introduce extra overhead on the bandwidth limited access link). Moreover, the access link is often asymmetric (e.g. ADSL, 1xRTT, etc.) thus preventing the use of round-trip monitoring schemes such as Pathchar and CapProbe. In this study, we propose and evaluate a passive, one-way link capacity monitoring tool called TFRC Probe. With TFRC Probe the source can monitor the forward direction capacity of both asymmetric and symmetric access links, and can rapidly and accurately adapt its transmissions rate accordingly. We validate TFRC Probe with both simulation and testbed experiments, and show that TFRC Probe is a very flexible tool that can accurately track frequent changes in access capacity. IS - 10 JF - Computer Communications EP - 1613 TI - Monitoring access link capacity using TFRC probe VL - 29 T2 - Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks SP - 1605 KW - measurement KW - tfrc AU - Chen, Ling-Jyh AU - Sun, Tony AU - Yang, Guang AU - Sanadidi, MY AU - Gerla, Mario PY - 2006/06/19/ UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TYP-4GYH6K4-2/2/e47418f702caf19295757b73bfbf3325 ER -