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Long-haul transmission performance in the Internet

  • Qiang Ye*
  • , Dianzhang Cui
  • , Zheng Wang
  • , Lei Wang
  • , Mike H. MacGregor
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Prince Edward Island
  • Telus
  • Beihang University
  • University of Alberta

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Abstract

Long-haul traffic accounts for a large percentage of the total data carried on the Internet. Due to the rapid changes of the Internet in terms of access technologies and core network bandwidth, the performance of long-haul transmission in the current Internet environment has not been well understood. In our research, we chose three typical longhaul paths (national, international yet continental, international and intercontinental) and studied their performance under a variety of access rates: dial-up, ADSL, ADSL2, and best-effort. Our results show that as long as the paths are within one continent, the long-haul transmission will be very reliable. However, intercontinental transmission suffers seriously from bandwidth fluctuation and packet retransmission.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCNSR 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research
Pages387-395
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event8th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research, CNSR 2010 - Montreal, QC, Canada
Duration: 11 May 201014 May 2010

Publication series

NameCNSR 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research

Conference

Conference8th Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research, CNSR 2010
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal, QC
Period11/05/1014/05/10

Keywords

  • Internet
  • Long-haul transmission
  • Performance evaluation

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