Bandwidth capacity measurement in small-scale wireless IP networks

Abstract

User applications on the internet cannot beget bandwidth guarantees from the network. Therefore, it is important to measure the available capacity bandwidth as well as link capacities so that the user applications may adopt these parameters to determine the applicability of the service. For measurement of the available capacity bandwidth between devices in a wireless network, active capacity measurement methods are used. Data packets inform of packet probes are inferred into the network from the sending device. These data packets are stamped with time at the end node. The available bandwidth is analyzed from the separation with the time stamped packets as the input.