Characterizing Broadband Services with Dasu
Zachary S. Bischof, Mario A. Sánchez, John S. Otto, John P. Rula, and Fabián E. Bustamante
Demonstration at USENIX NSDI, April 2013.
EECS Department
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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Abstract
We present the broadband characterization functionality of Dasu, showcase its user-interface, and include side-by-side comparisons of competing broadband services. This poster complements Sánchez et al. (appearing in NSDI) and its related demo submission; both focus on the design and implementation of Dasu as an experimental platform.
As mentioned in the NSDI work, Dasu partially relies on service characterization as incentive for adoption. This side of Dasu is a prototype implementation of our crowdsourced-based, end-system approach to broadband characterization. By leveraging monitoring information from local hosts and home routers, our approach can attain scalability, continuity and end-user perspective while avoiding the potential pitfalls of similar models.
