End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics

End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics (1999)

by Vern Paxson

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TITLE	End-to-End Internet Packet Dynamics	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Vern Paxson	user correction
ABSTRACT	We discuss findings from a large-scale study of Internet packet dynamics conducted by tracing 20 000 TCP bulk transfers between 35 Internet sites. Because we traced each 100-kbyte transfer at both the sender and the receiver, the measurements allow us to distinguish between the end-toend behaviors due to the different directions of the Internet paths, which often exhibit asymmetries. We: 1) characterize the prevalence of unusual network events such as out-of-order delivery and packet replication; 2) discuss a robust receiver-based algorithm for estimating “bottleneck bandwidth ” that addresses deficiencies discovered in techniques based on “packet pair;” 3) investigate patterns of packet loss, finding that loss events are not well modeled as independent and, furthermore, that the distribution of the duration of loss events exhibits infinite variance; and 4) analyze variations in packet transit delays as indicators of congestion periods, finding that congestion periods also span a wide range of time scales.	user correction
YEAR	1999	user correction
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