Systems and methods are provided for measuring available bandwidth available in a black box network by determining a probing rate of packet transmissions between a sender and receiver. The optimal probing rate and bandwidth estimate may be determined. Additional actions may be performed, like automatically rerouting packets and/or load balancing network traffic after the probing rate is determined.

A device in an evolved packet core (EPC) which includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving from one or more devices residing within a customer premise equipment (CPE) portion of a telecommunications network, sensor data associated with one or more customers and in response to receiving the sensor data, generating a data request for an ecosystem status for the CPE portion of the telecommunications network. The processor further effectuates operations including obtaining customer information for the one or more customers and creating an analytics environment, using the customer information, for the one or more customers. The processor further effectuates operations including performing, within the analytics environment, analytics on the sensor data to determine a state of the CPE portion of the telecommunications network for the one or more customers and in response to performing analytics on the sensor data, optimizing the telecommunications network.

Technology is described for receiving time series data to be transmitted to a server. A network connectivity problem may be determined to exist for a computer network with the server which prevents the time series data from being transmitted to the server. A mathematical function that represents the time series data received while the network connectivity problem exists for the server may be calculated and transmitted to the server.

A method is provided comprising monitoring, in a network node, a user plane traffic flow transmitted in a network, to perform measurements on selected data packets. Based on the monitoring, the network node collects in a correlated way, one or more of user measurement data, application measurement data, quality of experience measurement data, network side quality of service measurement data and a set of key performance indicators. Based on the collecting, the network node generates real-time correlated insight to customer experience.

In a method for miming a computer network (2) comprising a number of devices (4a-d) comprising at least one network port (6a-c) and being interconnected by network links (8a-c) connecting two respective ports (6a-c), wherein each of the network ports (6a-c) is running the LLDP protocol (9) and comprises a remote MIB (10a-c), a change of a physical state (up, down) of a network link (8a-c) triggers an update of the information in the remote MIB (10a-c) of the ports (6a-c) associated with this link (8a-c), especially immediately after the change of the physical state (up, down). A computer network (2) comprising a number of devices (4a-d) comprising at least one network port (6a-c) and being interconnected by network links (8a-c) connecting two respective ports (6a-c), wherein each of the network ports (6a-c) is running the LLDP protocol (9) and comprises a remote MIB (10a-c) is adapted for performing the above method.

A data retention probe for a packet-switched, mobile telecommunications network employs interfaces to connect to interfaces carrying traffic on a mobile network side of a gateway node and on a global internet side of the gateway node. A FPGA creates for each packet at least one fingerprint of one or more fields that are unchanged as part of the address translation performed by the gateway node and to create informative metadata for those packets. A processing unit: (1) receives from the FPGA the fingerprints and metadata and maintains flow records for each flow of packets seen on each side of the gateway node; and (2) compares the fingerprints and, where a match is found, determines those packets to be part of the same communication session and creates a record correlating internal IP address or a subscriber identifier to external IP address and port number.

A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface for receiving and transmitting data; wherein the wireless network device is adapted to: determine a first cost associated with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable; determine a second cost associated with communication between the client device and a further wireless network device to which the client device is connectable; determine whether the first cost or the second cost is the lower cost; and if the second cost is the lower cost, the wireless network device is adapted to guide the client device to communicate with the further network device.

Provided is a technique that reduces power consumption and appropriately stands by for data.

An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit performs control such that packet detection conditions are changed in a case where a first standby mode is set. The packet detection conditions are changed by switching between a first packet detection threshold value that is used in a normal standby state and a second packet detection threshold value indicating a lower packet detection probability than the first packet detection threshold value. In addition, the first packet detection threshold value and the second packet detection threshold value are packet detection threshold values to be compared with the reception level of a packet.

A slave unit that is a communication apparatus according to the present invention includes: a frame relaying unit that receives, among communication frames received by a reception port, a communication frame to be relayed to the other apparatus and outputs the received communication frame to a transmission port; a frame transmitting unit that generates a communication frame and outputs the communication frame to the transmission port; and a transmission-frame arbitrating unit that regulates output of the communication frame to the transmission port performed by the frame transmitting unit in a guard time that is a period including a time period in which arrival of the communication frame transmitted in a network in a fixed cycle is expected.

A communication control apparatus control establishment of sessions for transmitting content data between communication terminals in a communication system having relay management apparatuses for relaying the content data transmitted from the communication terminals, includes a route setter configured to select one or more relay management apparatuses to set a route for transmitting the content data, based on delay information for each of the sessions, a selector to select, from the selected relay management apparatuses, a relay management apparatus to synthesize the content data to transmit the synthesized content data to the communication terminals that join the session, and a transmitter to transmit selection information indicating the selected relay management apparatus to, among the communication terminals that join the established session, at least one communication terminal coupled to a relay management apparatus differing from the selected relay management apparatus.