On measuring quality of service limitations in local area networks

Converging networks destined to handle voice and data traffic have created a need for novel transmission quality planning. In most cases, the end-to-end communication path requires measurement for tuning and continuous maintenance to achieve acceptable quality of service integration. Several sources of latency within a local network communication path are beneath notice or remain undiscovered when doing such measurements, thus biasing the result. We discuss such relevant sections and introduce a method that takes these sources into account to receive a more accurate measurement. Validation shows that this method has the performance and accuracy to evaluate quality of service limitations from any point in a network. This enables a more aimed and efficient tuning of local area networks destined to carry real-time services.