Glasnost: enabling end users to detect traffic differentiation
NSDI'10 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network
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
Crowdsourcing ISP characterization to the network edge
Proceedings of the first ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Measurements up the stack
Probe and pray: using UPnP for home network measurements
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Measuring and characterizing home networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Up, down and around the stack: ISP characterization from network intensive applications
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Measurements up the stack
Revisiting broadband performance
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Dasu: pushing experiments to the internet's edge
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Peeking behind the NAT: an empirical study of home networks
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
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In recent years the quantity and diversity of Internet-enabled consumer devices in the home have increased significantly. These trends complicate device usability and home resource management and have implications for crowdsourced approaches to broadband characterization. The UPnP protocol has emerged as an open standard for device and service discovery to simplify device usability and resource management in home networks. In this work, we leverage UPnP to understand the dynamics of home device usage, both at a macro and micro level, and to sketch an effective approach to broadband characterization that runs behind the last meter. Using UPnP measurements collected from over 13K end users, we show that while home networks can be quite complex, the number of devices that actively and regularly connect to the Internet is limited. Furthermore, we find a high correlation between the number of UPnP-enabled devices in home networks and the presence of UPnP-enabled gateways, and show how this can be leveraged for effective broadband characterization.