Probing available bandwidth in radio access networks

Author

Krasser, Sven ; Owen, Henry L. ; Grimminger, Jochen ; Huth, Hans-Peter ; Sokol, Joachim

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

3437

Abstract

This paper presents a way of measuring whether a certain amount of bandwidth is available on a path in a radio access network or in other kinds of networks with DiffServ support. The basic concept is to fill up the bandwidth that is not used by normal data traffic with special probe packets, which are only forwarded if there are no data packets that could be forwarded. When probing multiple paths the interaction of different probe flows can be exploited to signal bandwidth requirements and to reserve bandwidth. In contrast to other approaches, the available bandwidth is not estimated by using statistical properties of the transmission of trains of packets but determined by measuring the actual throughput of a stream of low-priority probe packets.

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; packet radio networks; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; DiffServ support; data packets; low-priority probe packets; normal data traffic; packet trains; radio access network; signal bandwidth; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Diffserv networks; Intelligent networks; Paper technology; Peer to peer computing; Probes; Radio access networks; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258873

Filename

1258873