| 摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring traffic in a communication system. Information corresponding to traffic units to be forwarded, such as cells, is directed to a number of parallel traffic gapping gates (G1, ..., Gn) which make a gap or pass decision on individual traffic units, and the distribution concerning frequency of occurrence of the traffic units is estimated by simultaneously calculating the estimates of the relative frequency of occurrence on serveral value ranges. In order to obtain in a simple manner an accurate view on the traffic, the estimate of an individual value range is calculated on the basis of the difference between the numbers of decisions made during a specific period by the gapping gates corresponding to the value range in question.</p> |
