Fine-Grained Starlink Throughput Variation Examined With State-Transition Modeling
Johan Garcia,
Simon Sundberg,
Anna Brunstrom
Abstract:Leveraging a data set of almost half a billion packets with high-precision packet times and sizes, we process it to extract characteristics of the bursts emitted over Starlink's Ethernet interface. The structure of these bursts directly reflect the physical layer receipt of OFDMA frames on the satellite link. We study these bursts by analyzing their rates, and by proxy the transition between different physical layer rates. The results highlight that there is definitive structure in the transition behavior, and… Show more
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