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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2000
Hiroyuki Fukuoka, Saitama, JP;
KDD Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bandwidth measuring method for a packet switching network in which a bandwidth of a packet switching network includes a plurality of nodes for packet switching connected mutually is measured, the method includes a procedure in which a plurality of test packets which at least include two test packets having different packet length are fed to the packet switching network so that in the two test packets, the test packet having a long packet length and the test packet having a short packet length are successive in this order, and a procedure in which a receiver receiving each test packet determines an immediately former bandwidth based on the difference in the reception completion timing thereof.