Probing-Based Estimation of End-to-End Available Bandwidth
Seung Yeob Nam, Sunggon Kim, Junsu Kim, Dan Keun Sung · IEEE Communications Letters · 2004
A new mechanism to estimate available bandwidth for multiple hop routes is proposed based on a minimally backlogging concept. Since the proposed mechanism can estimate the available bandwidth quickly and track it adaptively, a reasonable range of available bandwidth for a short time interval can be obtained using the mean and variance of the estimated available bandwidth. The performance of the proposed mechanism is verified by simulation in a multiple hop network topology.