Active measurement of the available transfer rate used in an algorithm for generalized assignment problem

This paper proposes a solution for active measurement of the Available Transfer Rate needed in a multi-tunnel architecture with a smart mobile router offering uninterrupted services for its wireless customers. It simultaneously uses several wireless/mobile access networks to the Internet in order to reach the service continuity gateway located somewhere in a broadband network. This customer-oriented approach uses the measurements to select the tunnels between the router and the gateway. Furthermore an algorithm for solving the Generalized Assignment Problem minimizes the costs. The allocation decision must be taken once every second in order to obtain the minimum possible cost.