An Experimental Study of Home Gateway Devices
An experimental study on different NAT devices done under WISEciti (Wireless Community Services for Mobile Citizens) project.
S. Hätönen, A. Nyrhinen, L. Eggert, S. Strowes, P. Sarolahti and M. Kojo. "An Experimental Study of Home Gateway Characteristics", In Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC '10), Melbourne, Australia, November 2010.
ABSTRACT: Many residential and small business users connect to the Internet via home gateways, such as DSL and cable modems. The charac- teristics of these devices heavily influence the quality and perfor- mance of the Internet service that these users receive. Anecdotal evidence suggests that an extremely diverse set of behaviors ex- ists in the deployed base, forcing application developers to design for the lowest common denominator. This paper experimentally analyzes some characteristics of a substantial number of differ- ent home gateways: binding timeouts, queuing delays, throughput, protocol support and others.
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