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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hidetaka Nishihara, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Okugawa, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a measurement system including a first transfer apparatus provided at a packet receiving edge of one network, a second transfer apparatus provided at a packet sending edge of the one network, and a measurement apparatus configured to receive a packet, the first transfer apparatus adds received time of the packet to the packet and transmits the packet, the second transfer apparatus receives the packet, adds sending time and a signature specific to the one network to the packet, and transmits the packet to which the received time, the sending time, and the signature are added, and the measurement apparatus receives the packet, and calculates a difference between the sending time and the received time to measure latency in the one network.