Combined methodology for measurement of available bandwidth and link capacity in wired packet networks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-5-2010

Abstract

Accurate measurement of network parameters such as available bandwidth (ABW), link capacity, delay, packet loss and jitter are used to support and monitor several network functions, for example traffic engineering, quality-of-service (QoS) routing, end-to-end transport performance optimisation and link capacity planning. However, proactive network measurement schemes can impact both the data traffic and the measurement process itself, affecting the accuracy of the estimation if a significant amount of probe traffic is injected into the network. In this work, the authors propose two measurement schemes, one for measuring ABW and the other for measuring link capacity, both of them use a combination of data probe packets and Internet control messaging protocol (ICMP) packets. Our schemes perform ABW and link-capacity measurements in a short time and with a small amount of probe traffic. The authors show a performance study of our measurement schemes and compare their accuracy to those of other existing measurement schemes and also show that the proposed schemes achieve shorter convergence time than other existing schemes and high accuracy. © 2010 The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Identifier

75649087426 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Iet Communications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2009.0249

ISSN

17518628

First Page

240

Last Page

252

Issue

2

Volume

4

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