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The goal of our Glasnost project is to make access networks, such as
residential cable, DSL, and cellular broadband networks, more
transparent to their customers.
ISPs are increasingly deploying a variety of middleboxes (e.g.,
firewalls, traffic shapers, censors, and redirectors) to monitor and
to manipulate the performance of user applications. Most ISPs do not
reveal the details of their network deployments to their customers. We
believe that this knowledge is important to help users make a more
informed choice of their ISP. Further, such knowledge is also useful
for researchers designing protocols and systems that run on top of
these networks.
To improve network transparency, we are building online tools that are
easy to use and publishing them on this web page. Currently, there are
two tools you could use to test your ISP. We will release more tools
as we develop them in the future.
Test for BitTorrent traffic manipulation
This tool tries to detect whether your ISP blocks or rate limits BitTorrent traffic.
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We previously provided a tool to measure various broadband characteristics. We since then discontinued this tool. You can still access information about our research on characterizing broadband networks.
| Faculty | Students | External Collaborators | ||
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Krishna P. Gummadi |
Marcel Dischinger
Andreas Haeberlen
Alan Mislove |
Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto |
If you are interested in learning more about our research in residential broadband networks or if you have questions or feedback, you can contact us via e-mail:
