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OMware: an open measurement ware for stable residential broadband measurement

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A number of home-installed middleboxes, e.g., BISMark and SamKnows, and web-based tools, e.g., Netalyzr and Ookla's speedtest service, have been developed recently to enable residential broadband users to gauge their network service quality. One challenge to designing these systems is to provide stable network measurement. That is, the measurement results will not be fluctuated by sporadic overheads incurred inside the middlebox or web browser. In this poster, we propose a network measurement ware, OMware, to increase the stability of residential broadband measurement. The key feature is to implement the send and receive functions for measurement packets in the kernel. Our preliminary evaluation for an OpenWrt implementation shows that OMware provides very stable throughput and delay measurement, compared with typical socket-based measurement at the user level.

References

[1]
BISmark. http://www.projectbismark.net.
[2]
A. Dainotti, A. Botta, and A. Pescapè. A tool for the generation of realistic network workload for emerging networking scenarios. Computer Networks, 56(15):3531--3547, 2012.
[3]
C. Kreibich, N. Weaver, B. Nechaev, and V. Paxson. Netalyzr: Illuminating the edge network. In Proc. ACM/USENIX IMC, 2010.
[4]
Ookla. Speedtest.net. http://www.speedtest.net/.
[5]
SamKnows. http://www.samknows.com.

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      cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
      ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 43, Issue 4
      October 2013
      595 pages
      ISSN:0146-4833
      DOI:10.1145/2534169
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        SIGCOMM '13: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
        August 2013
        580 pages
        ISBN:9781450320566
        DOI:10.1145/2486001
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      Published: 27 August 2013
      Published in SIGCOMM-CCR Volume 43, Issue 4

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      1. high performance
      2. network measurement
      3. openwrt kernel module

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