A passive test and measurement system: traffic sampling for QoS evaluation

Author

Cozzani, Irene ; Giordano, Stefano

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Pisa Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

1236

Abstract

We present a test and measurement system with real time end-to-end monitoring capabilities able to provide reliable performance evaluations through sampling techniques. Sampling is introduced for relieving the complexity of management functions, which are usually carried out by means of heavy routines dealing with a huge amount of data especially in the current heterogeneous broadband networks providing several services with multimedia traffic. Our results show how to manage the trade-off-between the sampling rate and attained estimation accuracy, representing a theoretical/quantitative method usable by network operators to design control instrumentation

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; broadband networks; measurement systems; monitoring; multimedia communication; packet switching; quality of service; random processes; sampling methods; telecommunication traffic; test equipment; ATM traffic; QoS evaluation; control instrumentation design; distributed passive measurement system; estimation accuracy; heterogeneous broadband networks; management functions; multimedia traffic; network operators; passive test system; real time end-to-end monitoring; reliable performance evaluation; sampling rate; sampling techniques; simple random sampling; simulation model; traffic sampling; Communication system traffic control; Computer networks; Delay; Monitoring; Quality of service; Sampling methods; System testing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Video on demand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776919

Filename

776919