Inferring network characteristics via moment-based estimators

Sara Alouf (1) , Philippe Nain (1) , Don Towsley (2)

1 MISTRAL - Modeling of Computer Systems and Telecommunication Networks : Research and Software Development
2 Department of Computer Science [Amherst]

In this work we develop simple inference models based on finite capacity single server queues for estimating the buffer size and the intensity of cross traffic at the bottleneck link of a path between two hosts. Several pairs of moment-based estimators are proposed to estimate these two quantities. The best scheme is then identified through simulation

Mots clés: Queueing; measurement; monitoring; simu- lation

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Sara Alouf, Philippe Nain, Don Towsley. Inferring network characteristics via moment-based estimators. Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2001), Apr 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. pp.1045-1054, ⟨10.1109/INFCOM.2001.916298⟩. ⟨hal-00641318⟩