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

URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2096149.2096151

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@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” }

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