%0 Journal Article
%T Can User-Level Probing Detect and Diagnose Common Home-WLAN Pathologies?
%A Partha Kanuparthy
%A Constantine Dovrolis
%A Konstantina Papagiannaki
%A Srinivasan Seshan
%A Peter Steenkiste
%J Computer Science
%D 2011
%I arXiv
%X Common WLAN pathologies include low signal-to-noise ratio, congestion, hidden terminals or interference from non-802.11 devices and phenomena. Prior work has focused on the detection and diagnosis of such problems using layer-2 information from 802.11 devices and special-purpose access points and monitors, which may not be generally available. Here, we investigate a userlevel approach: is it possible to detect and diagnose 802.11 pathologies with strictly user-level active probing, without any cooperation from, and without any visibility in, layer-2 devices? In this paper, we present preliminary but promising results indicating that such diagnostics are feasible.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2070v2