NETWORK QUALITY OF SERVICE LOCALIZER

摘要

A method and apparatus for quality of service localization within a relatively time-invariant communications network, the method (700) consists of the steps of: receiving quality of service estimations for a plurality of communications mediums, wherein each of the plurality of communications mediums is defined between a respective one of a plurality of transmitters located within the communications network to a common receiving point of the communications network, wherein each communications medium is conveyed over at least one shared physical communications path and at least one non-shared physical communications path (702); and comparing the quality of service estimations in order to localize a respective quality of service estimation to a likely physical communication path within the communications network (706).