The impact and implications of the growth in residential user-to-user traffic
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Uncovering performance differences among backbone ISPs with Netdiff
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Taming the torrent: a practical approach to reducing cross-isp traffic in peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
How's My Network? A Java Approach to Home Network Measurement
ICCCN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
Detecting traffic differentiation in backbone ISPs with NetPolice
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Crowdsourcing service-level network event monitoring
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Impact of home networks on end-to-end performance: controlled experiments
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks
Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Dasu - ISP characterization from the edge: a BitTorrent implementation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Probe and pray: using UPnP for home network measurements
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Estimating packet loss rate in the access through application-level measurements
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Measurements up the stack
Up, down and around the stack: ISP characterization from network intensive applications
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Measurements up the stack
Up, down and around the stack: ISP characterization from network intensive applications
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
Fathom: a browser-based network measurement platform
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Trying broadband characterization at home
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Dissecting Bufferbloat: measurement and per-application breakdown of queueing delay
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Student workhop
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Evaluating and characterizing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is critical to subscribers shopping for alternative ISPs, companies providing reliable Internet services, and governments surveying the coverage of broadband services to its citizens. Ideally, ISP characterization should be done at scale, continuously, and from end users. While there has been significant progress toward this end, current approaches exhibit apparently unavoidable tradeoffs between coverage, continuous monitoring and capturing user-perceived performance. In this paper, we argue that network-intensive applications running on end systems avoid these tradeoffs, thereby offering an ideal platform for ISP characterization. Based on data collected from 500,000 peer-to-peer BitTorrent users across 3,150 networks, together with the reported results from the U.K. Ofcom/SamKnows studies, we show the feasibility of this approach to characterize the service that subscribers can expect from a particular ISP. We discuss remaining research challenges and design requirements for a solution that enables efficient and accurate ISP characterization at an Internet scale.