Passive Monitoring Of Network Performance

An arrangement for measuring network performance, comprising:

• means to transmit via a communication network payload packets from a sending node to a receiving node;
• means to generate at the sending node a send specification for each of at least two selected packets of the transmitted payload packets;
• means to generate at the receiving node, a receive specification for each of at least two selected packets of the transmitted payload packets;
• means to bring generated send specifications and generated receive specifications together;
• means to estimate network performance by utilizing corresponding specifications of the brought together specifications.

A computer readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of a method for measuring network performance, comprising:

• transmitting via a communication network payload packets from a sending node to a receiving node;
• generating at the sending node a send specification for each of at least two selected packets of the transmitted payload packets;
• generating at the receiving node, a receive specification for each of at least two selected packet of the transmitted payload packets;
• bringing generated send specifications and generated receive specifications together;
• estimating network performance by utilizing corresponding specifications of the brought together specifications.