MR-BART: Multi-Rate Available Bandwidth Estimation in Real-Time

  • Authors:
  • Mahboobeh Sedighizad;Babak Seyfe;Keivan Navaie

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran;School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose Multi-Rate Bandwidth Available in Real Time (MR-BART) to estimate the end-to-end Available Bandwidth (AB) of a network path. The proposed scheme is an extension of the Bandwidth Available in Real Time (BART) which employs multi-rate (MR) probe packet sequences with Kalman filtering. Comparing to BART, we show that the proposed method is more robust and converges faster than that of BART and achieves a more AB accurate estimation. Furthermore, we analyze the estimation error in MR-BART and obtain analytical formula and empirical expression for the AB estimation error based on the system parameters.