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The end-to-end effects of Internet path selection
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The path taken by a packet traveling across the Internet depends on a large number of factors, including routing protocols and per-network routing policies. The impact of these factors on the end-to-end performance experienced by users is poorly understood. In this paper, we conduct a measurement-based study comparing the performance seen using the "default" path taken in the Internet with the potential performance available using some alternate path. Our study uses five distinct datasets containing measurements of "path quality", such as round-trip time, loss rate, and bandwidth, taken between pairs of geographically diverse Internet hosts. We construct the set of potential alternate paths by composing these measurements to form new synthetic paths. We find that in 30-80% of the cases, there is an alternate path with significantly superior quality. We argue that the overall result is robust and we explore two hypotheses for explaining it.
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- Authors
- Savage, S., Collins, A., Hoffman, E., Snell, J., & Anderson, T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1999-08-30
- Pages
- 289-299
- OpenAlex
- W2036732598
- Cited by
- 473
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 16.38
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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