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A comparison of active and passive methods for measuring packet loss

Barford et al., 2002

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17367846619895730278
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Barford P
Sommers J
Bonneville J
Milburn S
Sakata T
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Technical Report

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Active measurements of packet loss have formed the basis for much of our empirical understanding of loss behavior in wide area networks. Passive loss measurements at network nodes, while not widely available, offer the potential for an entirely different …
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