Characterizing End-to-End Packet Delay and Loss in the Internet (1993)
| Venue: | Journal of High Speed Networks |
| Citations: | 139 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Bolot93characterizingend-to-end,
author = {Jean-chrysostome Bolot},
title = {Characterizing End-to-End Packet Delay and Loss in the Internet},
journal = {Journal of High Speed Networks},
year = {1993},
volume = {2},
pages = {305--323}
}
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Abstract
We use the measured round trip delays of small UDP probe packets sent at regular time intervals to characterize the end-to-end packet delay and loss behavior in the Internet. By varying the interval between probe packets, it is possible to study the structure of the Internet load over different time scales. In this paper, the time scales of interest range from a few milliseconds to a few minutes. Our observations agree with results obtained by others using simulation and experimental approaches. For example, our estimates of Internet workload are consistent with the hypothesis of a mix of bulk traffic with larger packet size, and interactive traffic with smaller packet size. The interarrival time distribution for Internet packets is consistent with an exponential distribution. We also observe a phenomenon of compression (or clustering) of the probe packets similar to the acknowledgement compression phenomenon recently observed in TCP. Our results also show interesting and less expected...
