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DietTopp: A first implementation and evaluation of a simplified bandwidth measurement method

Networking and Internet Architecture 2023-01-18 v1

Abstract

This paper describes the active available bandwidth measurement tool DietTopp. It measures the available bandwidth and the link capacity on an end-to-end path having one bottleneck link. DietTopp is based on a simplified TOPP method. This paper describe and motivate the simplifications and assumptions made to TOPP. Further, the paper describes some of the DietTopp implementation issues. A first evaluation of DietTopp in a testbed scenario is made. Within this evaluation the performance and measurement accuracy of DietTopp is compared to the state-of-the-art tools Pathload and Pathrate. We show that DietTopp gives fast and accurate estimations of both the available bandwidth and the link capacity of the bottleneck link.

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@article{arxiv.2301.06405,
  title  = {DietTopp: A first implementation and evaluation of a simplified bandwidth measurement method},
  author = {Andreas Johnsson and Bob Melander and Mats Björkman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06405},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages, Second Swedish National Computer Networking Workshop (SNCNW), Vol. 5, 2004

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