| Abstract: | The paper presents an experimental comparison of device synchronization strategies to monitor quality of service (QoS) time metrics, such as the one‐way delay and the delay variation. The compared strategies are based on global positioning system (GPS), public Internet network time protocol (NTP) servers and ad hoc GPS‐based NTP servers with different treatments of the NTP traffic. The presented experimental results allow to quantitatively evaluate the level of performance achievable using each synchronization technique. Finally, considering a satellite test bed, we focus our analysis on two relevant aspects of time metrics monitoring: the impact of the synchronization errors on the metrics observation and the different values that can be measured when a metric is monitored at the application or data link level. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
