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FlexState: Enabling Innovation in Network Function State Management
Matteo Pozza, Ashwin Rao, Diego Lugones +1
Network function (NF) developers need to provide highly available solutions with diverse packet processing features at line rate. A significant challenge in developing such functio…
In Situ Network and Application Performance Measurement on Android Devices and the Imperfections
Mohammad A. Hoque, Ashwin Rao, Sasu Tarkoma
Understanding network and application performance are essential for debugging, improving user experience, and performance comparison. Meanwhile, modern mobile systems are optimized…
Network Characteristics of Video Streaming Traffic
Ashwin Rao, Yeon-Sup Lim, Chadi Barakat +3
Video streaming represents a large fraction of Internet traffic. Surprisingly, little is known about the network characteristics of this traffic. In this paper, we study the networ…
Experimental Assessment of BitTorrent Completion Time in Heterogeneous TCP/uTP swarms
Claudio Testa, Dario Rossi, Ashwin Rao +1
BitTorrent, one of the most widespread used P2P application for file-sharing, recently got rid of TCP by introducing an application-level congestion control protocol named uTP. The…
Can Realistic BitTorrent Experiments Be Performed on Clusters?
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous
Network latency and packet loss are considered to be an important requirement for realistic evaluation of Peer-to-Peer protocols. Dedicated clusters, such as Grid'5000, do not prov…
BitTorrent Experiments on Testbeds: A Study of the Impact of Network Latencies
Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous
In this paper, we study the impact of network latency on the time required to download a file distributed using BitTorrent. This study is essential to understand if testbeds can be…