Transmission device, available bandwidth estimation device, available bandwidth estimation system, method, and recording medium
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorTakashi OSHIBA
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Abstract
In order to enable to reduce a communication load while maintaining estimation accuracy of available bandwidth estimation being high, a transmission method includes: transmitting estimation packets, a packet size of each of which successively increases, to an available bandwidth estimation device at equal intervals, and, when receiving a signal indicating that a reception interval between the estimation packets at the available bandwidth estimation device starts to increase, stopping the transmission of the estimation packets.
Claims23
A transmission device comprising one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to:
- transmit estimation packets, a packet size of each of which successively increases, to an available bandwidth estimation device at equal intervals;
- and
- stop the transmission of the estimation packets when receiving a signal indicating that a reception interval between the estimation packets at the available bandwidth estimation device starts to increase.
An available bandwidth estimation device comprising one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to:
- receive estimation packets which are transmitted by a transmission device at equal intervals, and a packet size of each of which successively increases;
- and
- when the transmission of the estimation packets stops, estimate an available bandwidth, based on the estimation packets received up until then.
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A transmission method comprising:
- transmitting estimation packets, a packet size of each of which successively increases, to an available bandwidth estimation device at equal intervals;
- and,
- when receiving a signal indicating that a reception interval between the estimation packets at the available bandwidth estimation device starts to increase, stopping the transmission of the estimation packets.
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An available bandwidth estimation method comprising:
- receiving estimation packets which are transmitted by a transmission device at equal intervals, and a packet size of each of which successively increases;
- and,
- estimating an available bandwidth, when the transmission of the estimation packets stops, based on the estimation packets received up until then.
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