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    Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 2
    February 2017
    106 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3042068
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    Published: 23 January 2017
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