On calibrating measurements of packet transit times
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Experience with an adaptive globally-synchronizing clock algorithm
Proceedings of the eleventh annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay
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Precision timestamping of network packets
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
Active probing using packet quartets
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
User-level internet path diagnosis
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System capability effects on algorithms for network bandwidth measurement
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Robust synchronization of software clocks across the internet
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Strategies for sound internet measurement
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Packet-dispersion techniques and a capacity-estimation methodology
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Data streaming algorithms for accurate and efficient measurement of traffic and flow matrices
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Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting
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Improving accuracy in end-to-end packet loss measurement
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Practical delay monitoring for ISPs
CoNEXT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM conference on Emerging network experiment and technology
One-way delay estimation using network-wide measurements
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Modeling, analysis, measurement and experimentation with the Tangram-II integrated environment
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FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
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Quantile sampling for practical delay monitoring in Internet backbone networks
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An active measurement system for shared environments
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A geometric approach to improving active packet loss measurement
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ACES: adaptive clock estimation and synchronization using Kalman filtering
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Internal clock drift estimation in computer clusters
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Robust synchronization of absolute and difference clocks over networks
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Impact of transient CSMA/CA access delays on active bandwidth measurements
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Tracking low-precision clocks with time-varying drifts using kalman filtering
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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A highly accurate monitoring solution for active network measurement is provided without the need for GPS, based on an alternative software clock for PC's running Unix. With respect to clock rate, it's performance exceeds common GPS and NTP synchronized software clock accuracy. It is based on the TSC register counting CPU cycles and offers a resolution of around 1ns, a rate stability of 0.1PPM equal to that of the underlying hardware, and a processing overhead well under 1µs per timestamp. It is scalable and can be run in parallel with the usual clock. It is argued that accurate rate, and not synchronised offset, is the key requirement of a clock for network measurement. The clock requires an accurate estimation of the CPU cycle period. Two calibration methods which do not require a reference clock at the calibration point are given. To the TSC clock we add timestamping optimisations to create two high accuracy monitors, one based on Linux and the other on Real-Time Linux. The TSC-RT-Linux monitor has offset fluctuations of the order of 1µs. The clock is ideally suited for high precision active measurement.