Tools
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Abing, formerly ABwE (2003)
- Author(s): Jiri Navratil, R. Les. Cottrell
- Original Web site: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/tools/abing/
- Source code: abing_2.2.0.tar.gz (850 KB)
IGI/PTR (2003)
- Author(s): Ningning Hu, Peter Steenkiste
- Original Web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hnn/igi/
- Source code: igi-ptr_2.1.tgz (15 KB)
pathChirp (2003)
- Author(s): V. J. Ribeiro, R. H. Riedi, R. G. Baraniuk
- Original Web site: http://www.spin.rice.edu/Software/pathChirp/
- Source code: pathchirp_2.4.1.tar.gz (63 KB)
Pathload (2003)
- Author(s): Mansih Jain e Constantinos Dovrolis.
- Original Web site: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Constantinos.Dovrolis/bw-est/pathload.html
- Source code: Pathload_1.3.2.tar.gz (67 KB)
Spruce (2003)
- Author(s): Jacob Strauss, Dina Katabi e Frans Kaashoek
- Original Web site: http://project-iris.net/spruce/ (now offline, check Internet Archive Wayback Machine), http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/jastr/code/
- Source code: spruce_0.3.tar.gz (17 KB)
DietTopp (2004)
- Author(s): Andreas Johnsson, Bob Melander, Mats Björkman
- Original Web site: http://www.idt.mdh.se/~ajn12/index.phtml?choice=software
- Source code: DietTopp_0.2.tar.gz (130 KB)
YAZ (2005)
- Author(s): Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Walter Willinger.
- Original Web site: http://wail.cs.wisc.edu/waildownload.py
- Source code: yaz_0.1b.tar.gz (91 KB)
ASSOLO (2008)
- Author(s): Emanuele Goldoni, Alberto Torelli
- Original Web site: http://netlab-mn.unipv.it/assolo
- Source code: assolo-0.9a.tar.gz (88 KB)
Configurations
For each measurement tool we left the configuration parameters untouched, using default values suggested by the authors in the original papers or directly hardcoded within the software. Below the main configuration parameters used for the tests described in [1] and [2] are listed.
Abing
- repeating factor: 30
- # of packet pairs: 20
- probing packets' size: 1500 byte
- inter pairs distance: 50 ms
IGI/PTR
- # of train probed for each source gap: 3
- # of probing packets foreach train: 60
- probing packets' size: 1024 byte
pathChirp
- probing packets' size: 1024 byte
- chirp spreading factor (gamma): 1.2
- probing Lower bound: 10
- probing Upper bound: 150
- probing time (for multiple estimations): 4s
Pathload
- # of streams: 12
- # of packets per stream: 100
- bandwidth resolution (fraction of the ADR): .02
Spruce
- # of packets pairs: 100
- packtes' size: 1500 byte
- channel capacity: 100 Mbps
DietTopp
- # of packets per train: 64
- # of trains per offered rate: 5
- packets' size: 1500 byte
- # of levels between offered(min) and offered(max): 10
YAZ
- # of trains: 1
- # of packets per train: 50
- packets' size: 1500
- convergence resolution: 100
- minimum spacing: 40 us
ASSOLO
- probing packets' size: 1024 byte
- reach spreading factor (gamma): 1.2
- reach treshold (sigma): .05
- probing Lower bound: 10
- probing Upper bound: 150
- probing time (for multiple estimations): 4s