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A mechanism for the estimation of the available bandwidth between two end-points of a best-effort network is presented. The estimation is obtained by a simple statistical analysis of the effect that the network has on a synchronous train of packets. The possibility of exploiting self-similar characteristics of the delay jitters is also discussed, and a possible use of the estimates for management actions is suggested.
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Maryni, P., Davoli, F. Load Estimation and Control in Best-Effort Network Domains. Journal of Network and Systems Management 8, 527–541 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026434517164
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