Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
A control-theoretic approach to flow control
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
End-to-end packet delay and loss behavior in the internet
SIGCOMM '93 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Measuring bottleneck link speed in packet-switched networks
Performance Evaluation
Measuring link bandwidths using a deterministic model of packet delay
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Measurements of the congestion responsiveness of windows streaming media
NOSSDAV '04 Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Packet-dispersion techniques and a capacity-estimation methodology
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Characteristics of streaming media stored on the Web
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Bandwidth estimation: metrics, measurement techniques, and tools
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Experiences in a 3G network: interplay between the wireless channel and applications
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A city-wide vehicular infrastructure for wide-area wireless experimentation
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
An empirical study of bandwidth predictability in mobile computing
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Continuous monitoring of wide-area wireless networks: data collection and visualization
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
3G and 3.5G wireless network performance measured from moving cars and high-speed trains
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Mobile internet through cellular networks
On the feasibility of bandwidth estimation in 1x EVDO networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Mobile internet through cellular networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Measurement analysis of mobile data networks
PAM'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
On the feasibility of bandwidth estimation in wireless access networks
Wireless Networks
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Cellular networks are increasingly carrying Internet traffic for Email and Web browsers, VoIP and online games and streaming video. While there have been some studies characterizing the throughput of cellular data networks, there has been few measurement studies focusing on the latest Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) cellular protocol, considering characteristics for throughput-sensitive, latency-sensitive and streaming applications. This paper provides a measurement-based characterization of an EVDO network, using measures of TCP throughput, round-trip times and loss rates, and bandwidth estimation in order to gauge the ability of EVDO to support the QoS requirements of a range of applications. A week's worth of active measurement data reveals throughputs satisfactory for Email and Web browsing, latencies too high for interactive applications, and consistent results for bandwidth estimations, suitable for streaming.