Predicting Internet end-to-end delay: an overview

Abstract

Predicting the end-to-end packet delay and understanding the Internet dynamics are of great importance for many realtime and non-realtime applications, especially for provisioning the quality of service (QoS) of various sources. In this paper methods for modeling Internet dynamics and predicting the end-to-end delays are surveyed with emphasis on the approaches using system identification and time series analysis. The survey focuses on a control engineer's viewpoint rather than that of a statistician. Furthermore, it intends to provide a connection between the works in the both areas.