Point of Reference in Perception of Network Performance by Active Probing.

Reliability of active measurement results is an omnipresent issue in all existing measurement tools. Till this day, no reference point exists that would enable to compare measurement methods in efficiency and reliability. Partially, this is due to inability to attribute any particular probability model to both probing results as well as to the traffic probes interfere with. This paper proposed to analyze spectrum of measurement results in search for a reliable reference point. It is discovered that spectrum distribution of probing results are linearly dependent to linear changes in traffic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]