End-to-end packet delay and loss behavior in the internet
SIGCOMM '93 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
End-to-end Internet packet dynamics
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
Using pathchar to estimate Internet link characteristics
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
ADSL and high bandwidth over copper lines
International Journal of Network Management
Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Priority Scheduling and Buffer Management for ATM Traffic Shaping
FTDCS '99 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Forecasting network performance to support dynamic scheduling using the network weather service
HPDC '97 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks
Measuring Bottleneck Link Speed in Packet-Switched Networks
Nettimer: a tool for measuring bottleneck link, bandwidth
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
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In xDSL service networks, accurate bandwidth measurement is essential for network management and traffic engineering, such as isolating line faults and verifying guaranteed quality of service specifications, where ISP and xDSL service providers may be involved. Existing Internet bandwidth measurement techniques are not suitable because link asymmetry and ATM traffic shaping in xDSL deployments impact the accuracy of their measurements. In this paper, we present a novel stepwise algorithm for bandwidth measurement that performs accurately in xDSL service networks. The stepwise algorithm requires a smooth traffic generator since otherwise the accuracy would be affected by the ATM traffic shaping. A multi-packet technique is used to avoid explicit packet filtering. The scheme is lightweight in terms of implementation complexity and probe traffic overhead. The accuracy of the algorithm is demonstrated by laboratory and field experiments. The results show that the measurement errors in both upstream and downstream cases are within the range of 5% in a commercial ADSL service network tested under the following ATM network configurations: CBR, rt-VBR, and UBR service categories.