Re: Measuring bandwidth

Bogdan Ghita <b.ghita@jack.see.plym.ac.uk> Tue, 07 May 2002 17:38 UTC

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Hello Oleg,

Have a look at "A New Dynamic Web Server", Muntean et al, ICT2001. It is
somehow work-in-progress, but it tackles the area of network conditions-based
web content.

Regards
Bogdan Ghita


"Vishnepolsky, Oleg" wrote:

> Suppose a TCP server application wants to know what bandwidth and latency
> there are for each of the connected clients. Depending on the bandwidth it
> may serve different content. Depending on latency it may choose levels of
> interactivity. In request-response protocols, such as HTTP, there is not a
> lot of opportunity to measure bandwidth and latency on the responder side.
>
> Has anyone tackled these issues, say, with web servers ? Surely this is a
> very practical matter. If you serve images, you want to server "nicer"
> versions to folks with higher bandwidth.
>
> Oleg Vishnepolsky

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