[e2e] packet-pair probe implementation

Joseph Ishac jishac at grc.nasa.gov
Wed May 7 11:49:08 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Constantine Dovrolis wrote:
> However, strictly speaking, it has been shown before that packet
> trains do not measure "available bandwidth", at least if the
> latter is defined as "bandwidth not used by other traffic".

Ah, yes I agree...

I should have stated it as estimating the path or bottleneck capacity.
"Available bandwidth" was definitely a poor choice.

Thanks for the correction.

-Joseph




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