Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Purposes of the study
  • Limitations
  • Definition of terms
  • Thesis outline
• Review of Literature
  • Ethical issues
  • Defining IP Performance Metrics
  • Measurement activities
  • Analysis of measurement accuracy
  • Analysis of end-to-end Internet traffic dynamics
• Methodology
  • Measurement machines
  • Software utilities
    • Ping
    • Tcpdump
  • Data gathering
    • Choosing destination hosts
    • Choosing kernel versions
    • NTP concern
  • Review of relevant statistics
• Comparisons Between Ping Measurement Techniques
  • Experimental design
  • Comparison between ping and tcpdump
  • Comparisons between pairs of tcpdump
  • Comparison between two dedicated monitoring machines
  • Comparison between multi-user ping and single-user ping
  • Conclusion
• Analysis of Traffic Patterns
  • Buffering and queueing analysis
    • No significant queueing
    • Building up queue with large buffer
    • Bulk discard after buffer full
    • Random discard after buffer full
    • Packet timing compression
  • Packet size influence
  • Out-of-order delivery
  • Sending packets as fast as possible
  • Conclusion
• Conclusion and Future Work
  • Measurement accuracy
  • Traffic patterns
  • Future work
• Destination Hosts List
• Traceroute records
• More graphs
• Bibliography