Many residential and small business users connect to the Internet via home gateways, such as DSL and cable modems. The characteristics of these devices heavily influence the quality and performance of the Internet service that these users receive. Anecdotal evidence suggests that an extremely diverse set of behaviors exists in the deployed base, forcing application developers to design for the lowest common denominator. This paper experimentally analyzes some characteristics of a substantial number of different home gateways: binding timeouts, queuing delays, throughput, protocol support and others.
Hatonen et al. REF measures and analyzes the behavior characteristics of a variety of home gateways such as DSL and cable modems, including NAT binding timeout, throughput, and protocol support, and their influence on network performance and user experience.
An experimental study of home gateway characteristics
IMC '10
Computer Science