Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
A measurement-based admission control algorithm for integrated service packet networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Analyzing stability in wide-area network performance
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Distributed fair scheduling in a wireless LAN
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Endpoint admission control: architectural issues and performance
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Analyzing the browse patterns of mobile clients
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
On the constancy of internet path properties
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
Characterizing user behavior and network performance in a public wireless LAN
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A new algorithm for measurement-based admission control in integrated services packet networks
PfHSN '96 Proceedings of the TC6 WG6.1/6.4 Fifth International Workshop on Protocols for High-Speed Networks V
Voice over ip fundamentals
A decision-theoretic approach to call admission control in ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Wireless hotspots: current challenges and future directions
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Wireless hotspots: current challenges and future directions
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: Wireless mobile wireless applications and services on WLAN hotspots
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With the increasing popularity of handheld devices and wireless local area networks (LANs), real-time applications such as Internet telephony are poised to become ubiquitous. While there has been a substantial amount of research on quality of service problems in the Internet, most end-to-end bandwidth allocation approaches, such as RSVP, have had limited success due to scalability and deployment issues. Starting with the observation that reserving bandwidth in the Internet backbone requires substantial infrastructure support, but reserving bandwidth in the first hop does not, we only focus on the first-hop reservation. We evaluate several first hop allocation schemes and determine their effectiveness in improving end-to-end performance. Since utilization of the reserved first-hop bandwidth depends on the remaining Internet path throughput, we characterize this throughput using traces collected from a popular Web site. Our analysis shows that different clients experience widely different throughputs, and that a significant portion of the clients receive very low throughput (e.g. less than 20 Kbps). We then evaluate several bandwidth allocation schemes for various congestion scenarios. Our results show that the scheme which takes into account of both the application data rate and available Internet path bandwidth yields the best performance. Moreover, the scheme performs even better if it adapts to the changing path properties. We discuss how path bandwidth can be measured without active probing, how frequently it needs to be measured, and how this measurement is incorporated into the first-hop bandwidth allocation algorithm.