Bandwidth speed testing

Question

Faced with the following problem:

I need to determine bandwidth for a given ip and depending on it my task will be done in different ways.

I've written a simple implementation

Client:

public void send(Socket socket, File file) throws IOException {

    FileInputStream inputStream = null;
    DataOutputStream outputStream = null;

    try {
        inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
        int fileSize = (int) file.length();

        byte[] buffer = new byte[fileSize];

        outputStream = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());

        outputStream.writeUTF(file.getName());

        int recievedBytesCount = -1;

        while ((recievedBytesCount = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            outputStream.write(buffer, 0, recievedBytesCount);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println(e);
    } finally {
        inputStream.close();
        outputStream.close();
        socket.close();
    }

Server:

    public void recieve() throws IOException {

    ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket (port);
    Socket client = server.accept();

    DataInputStream dataInputStream = new DataInputStream(client.getInputStream());
    DataInputStream inputStream = new DataInputStream(client.getInputStream());

    String fileName = dataInputStream.readUTF();

    FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream("D:/temp/" + fileName);

    byte[] buffer = new byte[65535];

    int totalLength = 0;
    int currentLength = -1;

    while((currentLength = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1){
        totalLength += currentLength;
        fout.write(buffer, 0, currentLength);
    }
}

Test class:

public static void main(String[] args) {

        File file = new File("D:\\temp2\\absf.txt");
        Socket socket = null;
        try {
            socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 8080);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        ClientForTransfer cl = new ClientForTransfer();

        long lBegin = 0;
        long lEnd = 0;

        try {
            lBegin = System.nanoTime();
            cl.send(socket, file);
            lEnd = System.nanoTime();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        long lDelta = lEnd - lBegin;

        Double result =  ( file.length() / 1024.0 / 1024.0 * 8.0 / lDelta * 1e-9 );      //Mbit/s

        System.out.println(result);

    }

The problem is that using different sizes of the input files I get different speeds. Tell me, please, how to solve this problem.

Answer 1

The problem is the TCP slow-start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-start

Try to first transfer something like 10KBs, followed by the real measurement transfer. Make sure to use the same connection for both transfers.