Packet Probing Study to Assess Sustainability in Available Bandwidth Measurements : Case of High-Speed Cellular Networks

Facts and figures indicate that the latest generations of cellular networks are likely to become the dominant medium of the global data exchange. This may pose a challenge to service providers trying to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) provided that is usually specified in Service Level Agreement (SLA), which, in turn, has to be practically verified. It requires methods and tools to measure the adopted QoS metrics such as bandwidth and Round-Trip Time (RTT). For this research, the InfoVista’s proprietary tool (Blixt™) was used. The research discusses how the probing packet parameters play a vital role in determining the accuracy of the measurements, the level of intrusiveness in a shared-resources network, and its implications for sustainability for this application. The experiments were carried out in a live commercial network and the performance was also compared with other cutting-edge available bandwidth measurement tools in a multi-carrier scenario.Validerad;2020;Nivå 1;2020-07-13 (alebob)PERvasive Computing and COMmunications for sustainable developmen