An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks

@inproceedings{2003-Akella-sigmetrics,
    author = "Akella, Aditya and Seshan, Srinivasan and Shaikh, Anees",
    title = "An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks",
    year = "2003",
    isbn = "1581136641",
    publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/781027.781075",
    doi = "10.1145/781027.781075",
    abstract = "Performance limitations in the current Internet are thought to lie at the edges of the network -- i.e last mile connectivity to users, or access links of stub ASes. As these links are upgraded, however, it is important to consider where new bottlenecks and hot-spots are likely to arise. Through an extensive measurement study, we discover, classify and characterize non-access bottleneck links in terms of their location, latency and available capacity. We find that nearly half of the paths explored have a non-access bottleneck with available capacity less than 50 Mbps. The bottlenecks identified are roughly equally split between intra-ISP links and links between ISPs. These results have implications on issues such as the choice of access providers and route optimization.",
    booktitle = "ACM SIGMETRICS",
    pages = "316–317",
    note = "Short Paper",
    numpages = "2",
    keywords = "network measurement, bottleneck links",
    location = "San Diego, CA, USA",
    series = "SIGMETRICS '03",
    category = "[Measurement, Multipath]",
    month = "June"
}