Accurate delay measurement for parallel monitoring of probe flows

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an accurate parallel flow monitoring method using active probe packets. Although multiple probe flows are monitored to measure delays on multiple paths in parallel for most measurement applications, information of only one probe flow of the multiple probe flows is utilized to measure an end-to-end delay on a path in conventional active measurement. In addition to information observed by the flow along the path, information of other flows is also utilized for the measurement in the proposed method. Delays on a flow are accurately measured by partially converting the observation results of a flow to those of another flow. Simulations are performed to confirm that the observation results of 72 parallel flows of active measurement are appropriately converted between each other in the proposed method. When the 99th-percentile of an end-to-end delay for each flow are measured, the proposed method achieves up to 95 % reduction of the error, and the error of the worst flow among all flows are reduced by 28%.