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Inferring Queue Sizes in Access Networks by Active Measurement

Inferring Queue Sizes in Access Networks by Active Measurement


Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki, Mingzhe Li, James Nichols, and Huahui Wu

In Proceedings of the 5th Passive and Active Network Measurement Conference (PAM)
Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France
April 19-20, 2004


Router queues can impact both round-trip times and throughput. Yet little is publicly known about queue provisioning employed by Internet services providers for the routers that control the access links to home computers. This paper proposes QFind, a black-box measurement technique, as a simple method to approximate the size of the access queue at last mile router. We evaluate QFind through simulation, emulation, and measurement. Although precise access queue results are limited by receiver window sizes and other system events, we find there are distinct difference between DSL and cable access queue sizes.


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