Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks Export

@techreport{citeulike:4431952, abstract = {The quality of available network connections can often have a large impact on the performance of distributed applications. For example, document transfer applications such as FTP, Gopher and the World Wide Web suffer increased response times as a result of network congestion. For these applications, the document transfer time is directly related to the available bandwidth of the connection. Available bandwidth depends on two things: 1) the underlying capacity of the path from client to server, which is limited by the bottleneck link; and 2) the amount of other traffic competing for links on the path. If measurements of these quantities were available to the application, the current utilization of connections could be calculated. Network utilization could then be used as a basis for selection from a set of alternative connections or servers, thus providing reduced response time. Such a dynamic server selection scheme would be especially important in a mobile computing environment in whi...}, author = {Carter, Robert L. and Crovella, Mark E.}, citeulike-article-id = {4431952}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.30.156}, journal = {Performance Evaluation}, keywords = {capacity, performance, planing}, pages = {297--318}, posted-at = {2009-04-29 05:50:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.30.156}, volume = {27}, year = {1996} }

TY - RPRT ID - citeulike:4431952 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4431952 N2 - The quality of available network connections can often have a large impact on the performance of distributed applications. For example, document transfer applications such as FTP, Gopher and the World Wide Web suffer increased response times as a result of network congestion. For these applications, the document transfer time is directly related to the available bandwidth of the connection. Available bandwidth depends on two things: 1) the underlying capacity of the path from client to server, which is limited by the bottleneck link; and 2) the amount of other traffic competing for links on the path. If measurements of these quantities were available to the application, the current utilization of connections could be calculated. Network utilization could then be used as a basis for selection from a set of alternative connections or servers, thus providing reduced response time. Such a dynamic server selection scheme would be especially important in a mobile computing environment in whi... JF - Performance Evaluation EP - 318 TI - Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks VL - 27 SP - 297 KW - capacity KW - performance KW - planing AU - Carter, Robert AU - Crovella, Mark PY - 1996/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.30.156 ER -