End-to-end available bandwidth: measurement methodology, dynamics, and relation with TCP throughput
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
System capability effects on algorithms for network bandwidth measurement
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A measurement study of available bandwidth estimation tools
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Bandwidth estimation in broadband access networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
The probe gap model can underestimate the available bandwidth of multihop paths
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Laboratory-based calibration of available bandwidth estimation tools
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Multi-hop probing asymptotics in available bandwidth estimation: stochastic analysis
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Operational comparison of available bandwidth estimation tools
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Techniques for available bandwidth measurement in IP networks: A performance comparison
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On the applicability of available bandwidth estimation techniques and tools
Computer Communications
Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An experimental study of home gateway characteristics
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
End-to-end available bandwidth estimation tools, an experimental comparison
TMA'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
Comparison of public end-to-end bandwidth estimation tools on high-speed links
PAM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Evaluation and characterization of available bandwidth probing techniques
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Bandwidth estimation: metrics, measurement techniques, and tools
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Putting home users in charge of their network
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future human-centric multimedia networking
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The spread of residential broadband Internet access is raising the question of how to measure Internet speed. We argue that available bandwidth is a key metric of access link speed. Unfortunately, the performance of available bandwidth estimation tools has rarely been tested from hosts connected to residential networks. This paper compares the accuracy and overhead of state-of-the-art available bandwidth estimation tools from hosts connected to commercial ADSL and cable networks. Our results show that, when using default settings, some tools underestimate the available bandwidth by more than 60%. We demonstrate using controlled testbeds that this happens because current home gateways have a limited packet forwarding rate.