Can User-Level Probing Detect and Diagnose Common Home-WLAN Pathologies

@article{2012-Kanuparthy-ccr,
    author = "Kanuparthy, Partha and Dovrolis, Constantine and Papagiannaki, Konstantina and Seshan, Srinivasan and Steenkiste, Peter",
    title = "Can User-Level Probing Detect and Diagnose Common Home-WLAN Pathologies",
    year = "2012",
    issue_date = "January 2012",
    publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    volume = "42",
    number = "1",
    issn = "0146-4833",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/2096149.2096151",
    doi = "10.1145/2096149.2096151",
    abstract = "Common Wireless LAN (WLAN) pathologies include low signal-to-noise ratio, congestion, hidden terminals or interference from non-802.11 devices and phenomena. Prior work has focused on the detection and diagnosis of such problems using layer-2 information from 802.11 devices and special purpose access points and monitors, which may not be generally available. Here, we investigate a user-level approach: is it possible to detect and diagnose 802.11 pathologies with strictly user-level active probing, without any cooperation from, and without any visibility in, layer-2 devices? In this paper, we present preliminary but promising results indicating that such diagnostics are feasible.",
    journal = "SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review (CCR)",
    month = "January",
    pages = "7–15",
    numpages = "9",
    keywords = "probing, diagnosis, home networks, 802.11, performance"
}