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Root cause analysis for long-lived TCP connections
CoNEXT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM conference on Emerging network experiment and technology
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A root cause analysis toolkit for TCP
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On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic
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On the interaction between internet applications and TCP
ITC20'07 Proceedings of the 20th international teletraffic conference on Managing traffic performance in converged networks
Measurement and characteristics of aggregated traffic in broadband access networks
ITC20'07 Proceedings of the 20th international teletraffic conference on Managing traffic performance in converged networks
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On profiling residential customers
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Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway
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Revisiting broadband performance
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Understanding the effects of P2P dynamics on trust bootstrapping
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Measuring home networks with homenet profiler
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
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We report results from the analysis of a 24-hour packet trace containing TCP traffic of approximately 1300 residential ADSL clients. Some of our observations confirm earlier studies: the major fraction of the total traffic originates from P2P applications and small fractions of connections and clients are responsible for the vast majority of the traffic. However, our main contribution is a throughput performance analysis of the clients. We observe suprisingly low utilizations of upload and download capacity for most of the clients. Furthermore, by using our TCP root cause analysis tool, we obtain a striking result: in over 90% of the cases, the low utilization is mostly due to the (P2P) applications clients use, which limit the transmission rate and not due to network congestion, for instance. P2P applications typically impose upload rate limits to avoid uplink saturation that hurt download performance. Our analysis shows that these rate limits are very low and, as a consequence, the aggregate download rates for these applications are low.