The End-to-End Effects of Internet Path Selection (1999)
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| Venue: | IN PROCEEDINGS OF ACM SIGCOMM |
| Citations: | 234 - 9 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Savage99theend-to-end,
author = {Stefan Savage and Andy Collins and Eric Hoffman and John Snell and Thomas Anderson},
title = {The End-to-End Effects of Internet Path Selection},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF ACM SIGCOMM},
year = {1999},
pages = {289--299},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
The path taken by a packet traveling across the Internet depends on a large number of factors, including routing protocols and pernetwork routing policies. The impact of these factors on the endto -end performance experienced by users is poorly understood. In this paper, we conduct a measurement-based study comparing the performance seen using the "default" path taken in the Internet with the potential performance available using some alternate path. Our study uses five distinct datasets containing measurements of "path quality", such as round-trip time, loss rate, and bandwidth, taken between pairs of geographically diverse Internet hosts. We construct the set of potential alternate paths by composing these measurements to form new synthetic paths. We find that in 30-80% of the cases, there is an alternate path with significantly superior quality. We argue that the overall result is robust and we explore two hypotheses for explaining it.
