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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 05, 1995
Steven N Bennett, Cheltenham, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for determining delays in a network (10) carrying messages, such as an SS7 signalling network or a TCP/IP network. The method involves monitoring the network (10) at a predetermined location to detect first messages (REQ) and second messages (ACK) of respective predetermined categories (X, Y), the first and second messages each producing a respective time-dependent loading of the network and the second messages being caused by the first messages whereby the loadings vary in a similar manner with time but with the loading produced by the second messages being offset from that produced by the first messages. Load measures (L.sub.X,L.sub.Y) are then derived for the first and second messages (REQ, ACK), each load measure being derived by counting the number of messages of the category concerned that are detected in a predetermined time interval. These load measures (L.sub.X,L.sub.Y) are thereafter used to determine the offset between the network loadings produced by the first and second messages, this offset providing a network-delay measurement.