Framework of End-to-end Performance Measurement and Analysis System for Internet Applications

The Internet provides only the best-effort service
for users. There is no guaranteed QoS service
for end users. In general, a end-to-end path
of the Internet is changed by the bandwidth, delay
and packet loss by time. Therefore,
the measurement of the end-to-end performance
is a difficult task for users who need to establish
the guaranteed path for critical applications.
This paper proposes a framework for measurement,
analysis and application program interface
to estimate the end-to-end performance
for critial applications.
The proposed framework is based on the combination
of the historical data for previous measurements
and the real-time data for current measurement.
The framework is effective for applications
which need to know the end-to-end performance.
The preliminary measurement
in this paper has been done to verify the method.