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Home Network or Access Link? Locating Last-Mile Downstream Throughput Bottlenecks

Authors : Srikanth Sundaresan, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira

Published in: Passive and Active Measurement

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Abstract

As home networks see increasingly faster downstream throughput speeds, a natural question is whether users are benefiting from these faster speeds or simply facing performance bottlenecks in their own home networks. In this paper, we ask whether downstream throughput bottlenecks occur more frequently in their home networks or in their access ISPs. We identify lightweight metrics that can accurately identify whether a throughput bottleneck lies inside or outside a user’s home network and develop a detection algorithm that locates these bottlenecks. We validate this algorithm in controlled settings and report on two deployments, one of which included 2,652 homes across the United States. We find that wireless bottlenecks are more common than access-link bottlenecks—particularly for home networks with downstream throughput greater than 20 Mbps, where access-link bottlenecks are relatively rare.

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Metadata
Title
Home Network or Access Link? Locating Last-Mile Downstream Throughput Bottlenecks
Authors
Srikanth Sundaresan
Nick Feamster
Renata Teixeira
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Passive and Active Measurement

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-30504-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-30505-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30505-9_9