Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
NetPrints: diagnosing home network misconfigurations using shared knowledge
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Impact of home networks on end-to-end performance: controlled experiments
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks
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
Why is my internet slow?: making network speeds visible
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Crowdsourcing ISP characterization to the network edge
Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Measurements up the stack
Putting home users in charge of their network
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Expanding home services with advanced gateways
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Fathom: a browser-based network measurement platform
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Measuring home networks with homenet profiler
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Trying broadband characterization at home
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Remotely gauging upstream bufferbloat delays
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Peeking behind the NAT: an empirical study of home networks
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Analysis and topology-based traversal of cascaded large scale NATs
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Hot topics in middleboxes and network function virtualization
Delay-based congestion control: Flow vs. BitTorrent swarm perspectives
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Network measurement practitioners increasingly focus their interest on understanding and debugging home networks. The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology holds promise as a highly efficient way to collect and leverage measurement data and configuration settings available from UPnP-enabled devices found in home networks. Unfortunately, UPnP proves less available and reliable than one would hope. In this paper, we explore the usability of UPnP as a means to measure and characterize home networks. We use data from 120,000 homes, collected with the HomeNet Profiler and Netalyzr troubleshooting suites. Our results show that in the majority of homes we could not collect any UPnP data at all, and when we could, the results were frequently inaccurate or simply wrong. Whenever UPnP-supplied data proved accurate, however, we demonstrate that UPnP provides an array of useful measurement techniques for inferring home network traffic and losses, for identifying home gateway models with configuration or implementation issues, and for obtaining ground truth on access link capacity.