Abstract-In packet networks, congestion events tend to persist, producing large delays and long bursts of consecutive packet loss resulting in perceived performance degradations. The length and rate of these events have a significant effect on network quality of service (QoS). The packet delay resulting from these congestion events also influences QoS. In this paper a technique for predicting these properties of congestion events in the presence of fractional Brownian motion (fBm) traffic is developed.
SUMMARYMeasures of quality of service (QoS) must correlate to end-user experience. For multimedia services, these metrics should focus on the phenomena that are observable by the end-user. Metrics such as delay and loss may have little direct meaning to the end-user because knowledge of specific coding and/or adaptive techniques is required to translate delay and loss to the user-perceived performance. Impairment events, as defined in this paper, are observable by the end-users independent of coding, adaptive playout or packet loss concealment techniques employed by their multimedia applications. Time between impairments and duration of impairments are metrics that are easily understandable by a network user. Methods to detect these impairment events using end-to-end measurements are developed here. In addition, techniques to identify Layer 2 route changes and congestion events using end-to-end measurements are also developed. These are useful in determining what caused the impairments. End-to-end measurements were conducted for about 26 days on 9 different node pairs to evaluate the developed techniques. Impairments occurred at a high rate on the two paths on which congestion events were detected. On these two paths, congestion occurred for 6-8 hours during the day on weekdays. Impairments caused by route changes were rare but lasted for several minutes.
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