One-way delay estimation using network-wide measurements

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2710-2724

  Gurewitz, Omer ^a   Cidon, Israel ^a   Sidi, Moshe ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Delay estimation; Mathematical optimization; Maximum entropy; Network measurements; One way delay

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TOPOLOGY;

DELAY ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARE ERROR; NETWORK MEASUREMENTS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33745175845     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.874414     Document Type: Article

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