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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1997
Prathima Agrawal, New Providence, NJ (US);
Balakrishnan Narendran, New Providence, NJ (US);
Cormac Sreenan, Morris, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for maintaining and updating statistical trends of network delay to provide a predictive approach to synchronization. Necessary information, such as timing and stream ID information, is gathered from streams of data and future network delay values are predicted by constructing a measured packet-delay distribution curve. In a preferred embodiment, the inventive system maintains a delay histogram with a discrete set of quantization bins, each storing the relative frequency with which a particular delay value is expected to occur among the arriving packets. The histogram is then used to approximate the distribution in the form of a curve.