pathChirp is an active probing tool for estimating the available
bandwidth on a communication network path. Based on the concept
of "self-induced congestion," pathChirp features an exponential
flight pattern of probes we call a chirp. Packet chirps offer
several significant advantages over current probing schemes
based on packet pairs or packet trains. By rapidly increasing
the probing rate within each chirp, pathChirp obtains a rich set
of information from which to dynamically estimate the available
Another of our tools, STAB, is based on pathChirp and locates
available bandwidth bottlenecks. Steps to unpack file. All UNIX
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