End-to-End Available Bandwidth Probing in Heterogeneous IP Home Networks
conference paper
Prioritization of flows in a home network based on traffic classification is still no guarantee that enough bandwidth will be available between a server and a client. Besides, such QoS technologies need to be supported by every device in the end-toend path to be effective, which is relatively expensive for the owners of home networks. In any small-scale IP network (besteffort or QoS-enabled) it is therefore preferable to diagnose the network in real time, before admitting a new flow. In this paper we demonstrate a new method to probe the available bandwidth between a server and a client in an IP-based home network. The tool works with existing end-user devices, is non-intrusive, has a short measurement time, does not require pre-knowledge of the link layer network topology, and is accurate enough to make decisions about the admission of high-throughput high-quality streams such as for IPTV services.
TNO Identifier
428875
Article nr.
05766506
Source title
Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE Conference on Consumer Communication & Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), 9-12 January 2011, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Pages
431-435
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