Method and apparatus for quality of service determination

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7729268
APP PUB NO 20050111487A1
SERIAL NO

10797404

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A method of estimating bandwidth capacity, available bandwidth and utilization along a path in an IP network is disclosed. ICMP time-stamp requests are sent from a source host on the edge or inside the network to all routers on the end-to-end path to a desired destination. Differences between time-stamp values are used as indicators of QoS service at each router. The collected measurements are then processed at the sending host to infer QoS parameters in terms of path capacity in bit/sec, available bandwidth in bits/sec, individual link utilization and congestion at each router. These parameters can be combined to infer the QoS service in terms of bandwidth on the end-to-end path.

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  • NTT DOCOMO, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jain, Ravi Kumar Palo Alto, US 17 1128
Matta, Johnny Mikhael Montreal, CA 4 224

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