Provided herein are systems and methods for providing insights or metrics in connection with provisioning applications and/or desktop sessions to end-users. Network devices (e.g., appliances, intermediary devices, gateways, proxy devices or middle-boxes) can gather insights such as network-level statistics. Additional insights (e.g., metadata and metrics) associated with virtual applications and virtual desktops can be gathered to provide administrators with comprehensive end-to-end real-time and/or historical reports of performance and end-user experience (UX) insights. Insights relating to an application or desktop session can be used to determine and/or improve the overall health of the infrastructure of the session, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, the applications (e.g., remote desktop application) being delivered using the infrastructure, and/or the corresponding user experience.

A method performed by a central server node in a distributed machine learning environment is provided. The method includes: managing distributed machine learning for a plurality of local client nodes, such that a first set of the plurality of local client nodes are assigned to assist training of a first central model and a second set of the plurality of local client nodes are assigned to assist training of a second central model; obtaining information regarding network conditions for the plurality of local client nodes; clustering the plurality of local client nodes into one or more clusters based at least in part on the information regarding network conditions; re-assigning a local client node in the first set to the second set based on the clustering; and sending to the local client node a message including model weights for the second central model.

A method and system are provided for monitoring a protected network. The method includes, in a scoring phase, receiving a learned model having clusters of learning requests of learning network traffic observed during non-strain operation of the protected network, wherein each cluster has an associated characteristic learning response time. The method further includes receiving a score request to score a network service request of the network traffic, classifying the network service request with one of the clusters by comparing fields of the network service request to fields used for clustering the learning requests with the cluster, calculating a score based on the characteristic learning response times generated for the learned cluster to which the network service request is classified, and adjusting supportive handling of the network service request based on the score.

This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a first sending rate based on a network performance objective of first data and a network status of a first transmission control protocol (TCP) connection of a transport layer protocol, where the first TCP connection is used to send the first data; and sending the first data based on the first sending rate. In this way, network congestion control is more flexible, and TCP-based data transmission efficiency is improved.

This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a first sending rate based on a network performance objective of first data and a network status of a first transmission control protocol (TCP) connection of a transport layer protocol, where the first TCP connection is used to send the first data; and sending the first data based on the first sending rate. In this way, network congestion control is more flexible, and TCP-based data transmission efficiency is improved.

A method, an apparatus, and a system for time synchronization based on in-band telemetry are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring an estimated value of delay in a first transmission direction and an estimated value of delay in a second transmission direction; wherein the estimated value of delay in the first transmission direction is determined according to multiple delay samples in the first transmission direction, and the estimated value of delay in the second transmission direction is determined according to multiple delay samples in the second transmission direction, the first transmission direction is a direction from a second device to a first device, and the second transmission direction is vice versa; and determining a time system error of the first device relative to the second device according to the estimated value of delay in the first transmission direction and the estimated value of delay in the second transmission direction.

A method, an apparatus, and a system for time synchronization based on in-band telemetry are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring an estimated value of delay in a first transmission direction and an estimated value of delay in a second transmission direction; wherein the estimated value of delay in the first transmission direction is determined according to multiple delay samples in the first transmission direction, and the estimated value of delay in the second transmission direction is determined according to multiple delay samples in the second transmission direction, the first transmission direction is a direction from a second device to a first device, and the second transmission direction is vice versa; and determining a time system error of the first device relative to the second device according to the estimated value of delay in the first transmission direction and the estimated value of delay in the second transmission direction.

An information transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method comprises: a first node sends a first data packet to a second node, the first data packet carrying at least one of the following information: first identifier information, first sequence number information, and first timestamp information, wherein the first identifier information is used for instructing the second node returns a second data packet after receiving the first data packet; the first sequence number information is used for identifying the first data packet; and the first timestamp information is used for instructing the first node to send time information of the first data packet.

A method for providing data to a client computing device from an edge computing device is discussed herein. The method may include performing a network proximity check regarding the client computing device associated with a request for data captured by the wideband sensor. The method may further include determining, based on at least one proximity metric associated with the client computing device, a route for data responsive to the request for data associated with the network proximity check, where the route is one of a route including the cloud storage or a route that does not include the cloud storage. The method may also include receiving the request for data captured by the wideband sensor associated with the network proximity check. The method may also include transmitting the data responsive to the request for data captured by the wideband sensor associated with the network proximity check to the client computing device through the determined route.

Disclosed are techniques for performing ranging operations between an access point and an unassociated mobile device. The techniques can include receiving, at an access point, a broadcast probe request from a mobile device unassociated with the access point. In response to receiving the probe request, it can be determined that the mobile device is capable of performing ranging operations including inspecting the received broadcast probe request. The access point can send a ranging request to the mobile device.