Hello,
I am currently looking a bit into the subject of estimating the
available bandwidth on a wireless link and I wanted to ask if there are
any tool or kernel parameters out there that might already do this. I am
aware that there are many papers on this subject (just take a look at
google scholar [1]), but none seem to offer a 'reliable' solution. The
best working tool I could find so far was wbest[2], but its results are
very jumpy.
I do not look for a tool to *measure* the available bandwidth (iperf
does that just fine), I would ideally like to get an estimation without
sending any data over the link (or at least only a few packets).
As an example think of video streaming: A video stream might take up
most of the bandwidth and thus you would like to avoid creating
additional measurement traffic. However - if the wireless link degraded
(because the client might move) what would be the best way to 'sense'
this degradation as early as possible and react to it (by e.g. reducing
the video bandwidth).
Thank you for your time,
Severin
[1] http://scholar.google.at/scholar?q=wireless+bandwidth+estimation
[2] http://perform.wpi.edu/downloads/wbest/
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