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Round-Trip Time Estimation in Communication Networks Using Adaptive Kalman Filtering
Overview Heterogeneous communication networks with their variety of application demands, uncertain time-varying traffic load, and mixture of wired and wireless links pose several challenging problem in modeling and control. The focus of this paper is on the Round-Trip Time (RTT), which is a particularly important variable for efficient end-to-end congestion control. Based on a simple aggregated model of the network, an algorithm combining a Kalman filter and a change detection algorithm is proposed for RTT estimation. It is illustrated on real data that this algorithm provides estimates of significantly better accuracy as compared to the RTT estimator currently used in TCP, especially in scenarios where new cross-traffic flows cause a bottle-neck link to rapidly build up a queue, which in turn induces rapid changes of the RTT.
| Publisher | KTH - Royal Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | April 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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