NDLI: Impact of access bandwidth on packet loss: A flow-level analysis

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Mehmood, M.A. Sarrar, N. Uhlig, S. Feldmann, A.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Al-Khawarizmi Inst. of Comput. Sci., UET, Lahore, Pakistan (Mehmood, M.A.) \|\| T-Labs., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Sarrar, N.; Feldmann, A.) \|\| Queen Marry Univ. of London, London, UK (Uhlig, S.)
Abstract	High-speed Internet connectivity is becoming more ubiquitous due to advances in access technologies. On the one hand, the increased access speed allows flows to consume the larger available bandwidth. On the other hand, large aggressive flows lead to more bursty traffic. In this paper, we study the impact of higher broadband access speeds on the resulting packet losses, and dissect those losses into their constituent flows. Based on tightly controlled experiments using open source tools, we show that as ISPs are increasing the access bandwidth of their residential customers, the effects on flow-level properties are nontrivial. Surprisingly, the average number of flows that participate in a packet loss burst remains small, as compared to the burst size. As expected, higher access bandwidth translates into larger packet loss bursts. Furthermore, large flows dominate packet losses, and even more so as access bandwidth increases. In contrast, irrespective of the access bandwidth, a few small flows systematically participate in loss episodes, and suffer significantly due to their limited size.
Sponsorship	IEEE Malaysia ComSoc/VTS Joint Chapt.
Starting Page	259
Ending Page	264
File Size	146089
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479915323
DOI	10.1109/MICC.2013.6805836
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-26
Publisher Place	Malaysia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Burst losses Conferences Packet loss Bandwidth Flows Internet Delays Monitoring Access networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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