Summary: An Empirical Evaluation of Wide­Area Internet Bottlenecks
Aditya Akella Srinivasan Seshan
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
aditya@cs.cmu.edu, srini+@cs.cmu.edu
Anees Shaikh
Network Services and Software
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY 10532
aashaikh@watson.ibm.com
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 ac­
cess links of stub ASes. As these links are upgraded, however,
it is important to consider where new bottlenecks and hot­spots
are likely to arise. Through an extensive measurement study, we
discover, classify and characterize non­access bottleneck links in
terms of their location, latency and available capacity. We find that
nearly half of the paths explored have a non­access bottleneck with

Source: Akella, Aditya - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Shaikh, Anees - IBM Almaden Research Center

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences