A Machine Learning Approach to Estimating Queuing Delay on a Router over a Single-Hop Path

Queuing delay is a dynamic network parameter that plays an important role in defining the performance of Internet applications over an end-to-end path. However, measurement of queuing delay is challenging because it requires a large infrastructural support from the path under test. In this paper, we propose an active scheme to measure queuing delay on a router using a probe-gap model. The scheme uses a popular data-clustering algorithm to process its data samples; therefore, its measurement efficacy is not dependent on the issues related to infrastructural access, certain variations (e.g., compression) in the probe gaps, and the number of clusters in the data processing. Here, we present a detailed evaluation of the scheme against the current state-of-the-art on a single-hop path through ns-3 simulation. Our results show that the proposed scheme is robust, consistent, quick, and highly accurate under different traffic conditions.