[e2e] Expected latency for a single hop

[Craig Partridge]

Is l a physical link, an IPsec or IP-in-IP tunnel, or ...?

Note that if it is a tunnel, the answer is that the expectation and
variance of latency is potentially the same as any random multi-hop
Internet path....

Craig

In message <42F20F14.3000007 at web.de>, Detlef Bosau writes:

>I posted this in another context yesterday, but perhaps, I should 
>isolate the problem to state it more clearly.
>
>Consider an arbitrary packet-switching network.
>
>Consider two adjacent nodes n1, n2 with link l in between
>
>n1--------------------------n2
>                l
>
>
>Consider a packet traveling the network, it´s path shall contain n1 and 
>n2 subsequently.
>
>Now, let
>  t1: packet´s arrival time on r1.
>  t2: packet´s arrival time on r2.
>
>Can we forecast expectaition and variance (if only for the _near_ 
>future!) for the "one hop latency" t2 - t1 ?
>
>I explicitely focus on a "best effort" context.
>
>For link l I assume, that expectation and variance of the transport 
>latency exist.
>
>Is there any work in this direction?
>
>
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