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2012
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Probe and Pray: Using UPnP for Home Network Measurements

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Probe and Pray: Using UPnP for Home Network Measurements
Network measurement practitioners increasingly focus their interest on understanding and debugging home networks. The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology holds promise as a highly efficient way to collect and leverage measurement data and configuration settings available from UPnP-enabled devices found in home networks. Unfortunately, UPnP proves less available and reliable than one would hope. In this paper, we explore the usability of UPnP as a means to measure and characterize home networks. We use data from 120,000 homes, collected with the HomeNet Profiler and Netalyzr troubleshooting suites. Our results show that in the majority of homes we could not collect any UPnP data at all, and when we could, the results were frequently inaccurate or simply wrong. Whenever UPnP-supplied data proved accurate, however, we demonstrate that UPnP provides an array of useful measurement techniques for inferring home network traffic and losses, for identifying home gateway models with con...
Lucas DiCioccio, Renata Teixeira, Martin May, Chri
Added 25 Apr 2012
Updated 25 Apr 2012
Type Journal
Year 2012
Where PAM
Authors Lucas DiCioccio, Renata Teixeira, Martin May, Christian Kreibich
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