[e2e] Internet packet dynamics

[David G. Andersen]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:46:27PM -0800, Sam Liang scribed:
> 
>   Vern Paxson's excellent Sigcomm 97 paper, "End-to-End Internet Packet
> Dynamics", told us a lot about the Internet traffic characteristics. But
> seven years have passed. The Internet has changed a lot. In particular, the
> packet loss rate has dropped a lot. But it's not zero.  Are there any 
> recent work that study the current Internet traffic patterns, 
> such as packet loss rates?

 Quite a few.  You can get some packte loss numbers in a more
recent IMC paper of mine, and I'm sure there are numerous
other sources:

  http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/bestpath-imc2003.html

  As you assume, the loss rate we observed in 2002-ish is much lower
than observed by Paxson97.  The e2e loss numbers we observed
in the 2001 RON study were also quite a bit lower than those
that Paxson saw.  Those 5 years were a pretty good period for
internet bandwidth growth and technological improvement.

  -Dave

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