TY - GEN
T1 - Bridging the digital divide between research and home networks
AU - Smith-Salzberg, Caleb
AU - Fund, Fraida
AU - Panwar, Shivendra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/20
Y1 - 2017/11/20
N2 - Computer networking testbeds have made it easier for researchers to conduct realistic evaluations of new network protocols or services. However, it is challenging for users to configure testbeds or other experimental networks so that they are representative of typical home broadband links. To address this issue, we have developed a tool with which experimenters can configure links whose characteristics are drawn from a dataset of over 8,000 profiles of home Internet links in the United States, including fiber, cable, DSL, and satellite Internet connections from a range of speed and cost tiers. This paper describes our tool, and explains how it may be used with a variety of experimental platforms. We hope to make it easier for researchers to mimic networks that are representative of a variety of home users, so as to potentially increase the relevance of their experiments to this population.
AB - Computer networking testbeds have made it easier for researchers to conduct realistic evaluations of new network protocols or services. However, it is challenging for users to configure testbeds or other experimental networks so that they are representative of typical home broadband links. To address this issue, we have developed a tool with which experimenters can configure links whose characteristics are drawn from a dataset of over 8,000 profiles of home Internet links in the United States, including fiber, cable, DSL, and satellite Internet connections from a range of speed and cost tiers. This paper describes our tool, and explains how it may be used with a variety of experimental platforms. We hope to make it easier for researchers to mimic networks that are representative of a variety of home users, so as to potentially increase the relevance of their experiments to this population.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116417
DO - 10.1109/INFCOMW.2017.8116417
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041310143
T3 - 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
SP - 444
EP - 449
BT - 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2017
Y2 - 1 May 2017 through 4 May 2017
ER -