Analysis of Passive End-to-End Network Performance Measurements

without whose love, support, and encouragement I would have never made it this far. And to my sister, Jodi (Dee Dee), who first taught me how to sit through class (and the value of education). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank the NETI@home users, without whose participation there would be no NETI@home project and research at all. I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. George Riley, for his help and guidance in the completion of my studies. I would also like to thank my committee for their diligent and thoughtful review. The love and support given to me by my family has always been wonderful and this dissertation, as with much throughout my life, would not have been possible without them. I have also received lots of support from my lab-mates, especially Dheeraj Reddy, throughout this time, and they deserve many thanks! My friend and former roommate Julian Grizzard has also been very helpful, especially with those late-night ponderings. Elizabeth Campell deserves many thanks, as her work in the Georgia Institute of Technology Office of Institute Communications and Public Affairs helped to publicize NETI@home and increase the number of users. I would also like to thank everyone else who has helped with the successful completion of this dissertation. Finally, I would like to acknowledge that all of my blessings are the work of God. Table 8 Variation in average and maximum response times when using HTTP traffic model presented in this chapter (with flows sending zero bytes). .. . 76 Table 9 Variation in average and maximum response times when using HTTP traffic model presented in this chapter (without flows sending zero bytes). . 77 Table 10 Variation in average and maximum response times when using HTTP traffic model presented in [44]. .