Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
Adaptive bandwidth estimation
Some embodiments provide a method of combining multiple streams of data packets into a single combined stream in a manner that facilitates accurate estimation of bandwidth of a connection over a network between two devices. When combining the streams into the combined stream, the method associates a set of packets from a first stream and a reference packet from a second stream to form a longer sequence of packets in the combined stream. The method sends the combined stream from a first device to a second device so that the second device can estimate the bandwidth of the connection between the first and second devices based on the inter-arrival times of the packets in the sequence of packets.
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Thomas C. Hyeonkuk James O. Xiaosong Roberto Hsi-Jung Yan Joe S. Hassan A.
Jansen Jeong Normile Zhou Garcia, Jr. Wu Yang Abuan Shojania