Method and system for detecting camouflaged congestion on a network resource

摘要

A method and system for estimating the actual demand on a resource in a computer or communication network is taught using patterns of the traffic volume carried by the resource. Monitors on network resources periodically measure queue size and average transmission occupancy over the period. The monitors also mark times of queue overflow. Data transmission populations within the system are estimated between queue overflows and the resulting pattern is used to distinguish actual user demand that may be camouflaged by a reduction in traffic caused by the transport protocol response to lost or corrupted data transmissions.