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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

May. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/835 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/30 (2013.01); H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); H04L 43/0858 (2013.01); H04L 43/106 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication system includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit each of a plurality of measurement packets at a predetermined transmission interval; a reception unit configured to receive the plurality of measurement packets which have passed through a predetermined network for a predetermined number of times; and an available bandwidth estimation unit configured to calculate a cumulative value of a queuing delay by using reception time information indicating temporal information about reception of the measurement packets and transmission time information indicating temporal information about transmission of the measurement packets, and estimate an available bandwidth of the network by using the calculated cumulative value of the queuing delay.


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