End-to-End Measurements Over GPRS-EDGE Networks

In the last years, QoS (Quality of Service) parameter estimation has become a main research area in networking due to a continuous growth of the Internet. End-to-end active measurement is one of the topics that focuses on this research area. However, these measurement methodologies have focused on end-to-end measurements over the wired Internet. The development of cellular data services is shifting the resarch focus on QoS from wired to wireless networks. End-to-end measurement methodologies of cellular networks have some issues that are not considered by traditional measurement techniques. This paper analyzes these issues and suggests an end-to-end active measurement methodology that deals with these particular problems.