Accurate Loss Estimation Technique Utilizing Parallel Flow Monitoring

Abstract

For the design of delay/loss sensitive applications (e.g., audio/video conferencing, IP telephony, or telesurgery), it is important to accurately measure metrics along an end-to-end path. To improve the accuracy of end-to-end delay measurements, in our previous work, we have proposed a parallel flow monitoring technique. In this technique, delay samples of a target flow increase by utilizing the observation results of other flows sharing the source/destination with the target flow. In this paper, we extend this delay measurement technique to loss measurements and enable it to fully utilize information of all flows including flows with different source and destination. We confirmed that the proposed method reduces the error of loss rate estimations by 57.5% on average in ns-3 simulations.