[145361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: passive bandwidth estimation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Oct 6 00:48:15 2011
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:46:07 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Murtaza <leothelion.murtaza@gmail.com>
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I am more interested in getting an "Available Bandwidth" estimator. Due to
> this available bandwidth, I am interested in congestion window. As whenever
> congestion window goes to half it means the data rate has gone to its upper
> limit. I want to use this particular property of congestion window to
> calculate bandwidth.
> Any idea how can one do bandwidth measurement based on this?
vern paxson did extensive work in this area. van jacobson too.
randy