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A Tutorial on Network Latency and Its Measurements

A Tutorial on Network Latency and Its Measurements
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Author(s): Minseok Kwon (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 22
Source title: Enabling Real-Time Mobile Cloud Computing through Emerging Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tolga Soyata (University of Rochester, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8662-5.ch009

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Abstract

Internet latency is crucial in providing reliable and efficient networked services when servers are placed in geographically diverse locations. The trend of mobile, cloud, and distributed computing accelerates the importance of accurate latency measurement due to its nature of rapidly changing locations and interactivity. Accurately measuring latency, however, is not easy due to lack of testing resources, the sheer volume of collected data points, the tedious and repetitive aspect of measurement practice, clock synchronization, and network dynamics. This chapter discusses the techniques that use PlanetLab to measure latency in the Internet, its underlying infrastructure, representative latency results obtained from experiments, and how to use these measure latencies. The chapter covers 1) details of using PlanetLab, 2) the Internet infrastructure that causes the discrepancy between local and global latencies, and 3) measured latency results from our own experiments and analysis on the distributions, averages, and their implications.

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