MFPA-DCRBIT-09
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman. On Dominant Characteristics of Residential Broadband Internet Traffic. In IMC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Internet Measurement Conference, (Location: Chicago, IL), Pages 90-102, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, November 2009.
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Abstract
While residential broadband Internet access is popular in many parts of the world, only a few studies have examined the characteristics of such traffic. In this paper we describe observations from monitoring the network activity for more than 20,000 residential DSL customers in an urban area. To ensure privacy, all data is immediately anonymized. We augment the anonymized packet traces with information about DSL-level sessions, IP (re-)assignments, and DSL link bandwidth.
Our analysis reveals a number of surprises in terms of the mental models we developed from the measurement literature. For example, we find that HTTP—not peer-to-peer—traffic dominates by a significant margin; that more often than not the home user's immediate ISP connectivity contributes more to the round-trip times the user experiences than the WAN portion of the path; and that the DSL lines are frequently not the bottleneck in bulk-transfer performance.
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@InProceedings{MFPA-DCRBIT-09,
Author = {Maier, Gregor and Feldmann, Anja and Paxson, Vern and Allman, Mark},
Title = {On Dominant Characteristics of Residential Broadband Internet Traffic},
BookTitle = {IMC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Internet Measurement Conference},
Pages = {90--102},
Publisher = {ACM Press},
Address = {New York, NY, USA},
Location = {Chicago, IL},
Month = {November},
Year = {2009}
}
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