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6-Year of Broadband Performance in Korea: A View from the User's Experience
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- Authors
- Yeonhee LEE, Youngseok LEE
- Issue Date
- 2016-03
- Citation
- IEICE Transactions on Communications, v.E99.B, no.3, pp.630-646
- ISSN
- 0916-8516
- Publisher
- 일본, 전자정보통신학회 (IEICE)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- The widespread use and increasing popularity of broadband service has prompted a focus on the measurement and analysis of its empirical performance in recent studies. The worldwide view of broadband performance has been examined over the short term with Speedtest.net, but research in this area has not yet provided a long-term evolutionary insight on how DSL, Cable, and Fiber access technologies have influenced on user experience. In this study, we present 6 years of measurement results, from 2006 to 2011, of broadband performance with fast developing broadband networks in Korea. With 57% Fiber penetration in 2011, our data consist of a total of 29 M test records and 10 M subscribers. Over the 6 years, we have observed a 2.9-fold improvement in download speed (57 Mbps), 2.8-fold increase in upload speed (38 Mbps), and 0.7-fold decrease in latency due to the high penetration rate of Fiber broadband service and the advanced Cable modem technology. In addition, we carried out longitudinal analysis of various aspects of services, providers, regions, and cost-performance. We believe that the evolutionary Korean broadband measurement results can shed light on how high-speed access technologies are substantially enhancing on end-to-end performance.
- KSP Keywords
- End to End(E2E), End-to-End Performance, High Speed, High penetration rate, Longitudinal analysis, Measurement and analysis, User experience, broadband measurement, broadband network, measurement results, short-term