IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Regular Section
Accurate Parallel Flow Monitoring for Loss Measurements
Kohei WATABENorinosuke MURAIShintaro HIRAKAWAKenji NAKAGAWA
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2022 Volume E105.B Issue 12 Pages 1530-1539

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End-to-end loss and delay are both fundamental metrics in network performance evaluation, and accurate measurements for these end-to-end metrics are one of the keys to keeping delay/loss-sensitive applications (e.g., audio/video conferencing, IP telephony, or telesurgery) comfortable on networks. In our previous work [1], we proposed a parallel flow monitoring method that can provide accurate active measurements of end-to-end delay. In this method, delay samples of a target flow increase by utilizing the observation results of other flows sharing the source/destination with the target flow. In this paper, to improve accuracy of loss measurements, we propose a loss measurement method by extending our delay measurement method. Additionally, we improve the loss measurement method so that it enables to fully utilize information of all flows including flows with different source and destination. We evaluate the proposed method through theoretical and simulation analyses. The evaluations show that the accuracy of the proposed method is bounded by theoretical upper/lower bounds, and it is confirmed that it reduces the error of loss rate estimations by 57.5% on average.

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