H04L 45/123
Evaluation of link metrics
Official title: {Evaluation of link metrics (techniques for monitoring network metrics H04L43/08)}
H04L45/123 (Evaluation of link metrics) appears on 1,305 US grants and 1,447 published applications in this corpus.
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