Exploring the Measurement Lab Open Dataset for Internet Performance Evaluation: The German Internet Landscape

The Measurement Lab (MLab) provides a large and open collection of Internet performance measurements. We make use of it to look at the state of the German Internet by a structured analysis, in which we carve out expressive results from the dataset to identify busy hours and days, the impact of serve...

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Published inElectronics (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 162
Main Authors Lübben, Ralf, Misfeld, Nico
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2022
Subjects
Congestion
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Datasets
Evolutionary algorithms
Internet access
Internet service providers
Pandemics
Performance degradation
Performance evaluation
Streaming media
Video transmission
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Summary:The Measurement Lab (MLab) provides a large and open collection of Internet performance measurements. We make use of it to look at the state of the German Internet by a structured analysis, in which we carve out expressive results from the dataset to identify busy hours and days, the impact of server locations and congestion control protocols, and compare Internet service providers. Moreover, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We observe that only parts of the Internet show a performance degradation at the beginning of the lockdown and that a large impact in performance depends on the network the servers are located in. Furthermore, the evolution of congestion control algorithms is reflected by performance improvements. For our analysis, we focus on the busy hours. From the end-user perspective, this time is of most interest to identify if the network can support challenging services such as video streaming or cloud gaming at these intervals.
ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics11010162