Experimental suitability evaluation of standardized QoS measurements over mobile broadband networks

The increasing awareness in quality of service (QoS), has brought QoS measuring in Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks to become a key issue. This paper provides with an evaluation of the most significant standardized Internet access measurement methods such as TCP-based and model-based approaches over a controlled testbed and MBB monitoring infrastructure called MONROE. TCP-based measurements reflect the maximum rate over the whole path, whereas, model-based measurements demonstrated to be helpful for the feasibility/suitability-check of rate-limited applications over a certain MBB area.