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IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have already attracted more than half a billion users. However, our understanding of which OSN features attract and keep the attention of these users...
Fabian Schneider, Anja Feldmann, Balachander Krish...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Internet optometry: assessing the broken glasses in internet reachability
Reachability is thought of as the most basic service provided by today’s Internet. Unfortunately, this does not imply that the community has a deep understanding of it. Research...
Randy Bush, Olaf Maennel, Matthew Roughan, Steve U...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications for network applications
In this paper, we present a measurement study of the energy consumption characteristics of three widespread mobile networking technologies: 3G, GSM, and WiFi. We find that 3G and...
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, A...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
TCP revisited: a fresh look at TCP in the wild
Since the last in-depth studies of measured TCP traffic some 68 years ago, the Internet has experienced significant changes, including the rapid deployment of backbone links wit...
Feng Qian, Alexandre Gerber, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, ...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Sampling biases in network path measurements and what to do about it
We show that currently prevalent practices for network path measurements can produce inaccurate inferences because of sampling biases. The inferred mean path latency can be more t...
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Characterizing VLAN-induced sharing in a campus network
Many enterprise, campus, and data-center networks have complex layer-2 virtual LANs (“VLANs”) below the IP layer. The interaction between layer-2 and IP topologies in these VL...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Ahmed Mansy, Nick Fea...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Scalable proximity estimation and link prediction in online social networks
Proximity measures quantify the closeness or similarity between nodes in a social network and form the basis of a range of applications in social sciences, business, information t...
Han Hee Song, Tae Won Cho, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang, ...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Moving beyond end-to-end path information to optimize CDN performance
Replicating content across a geographically distributed set of servers and redirecting clients to the closest server in terms of latency has emerged as a common paradigm for impro...
Rupa Krishnan, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Sridhar Srini...
IMC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
An analysis of packet sampling in the frequency domain
Packet sampling techniques introduce measurement errors that should be carefully handled in order to correctly characterize the network behavior. In the literature several works h...
Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Chadi Barakat