Open Internet Access: Measurement Methods and Impact of Qos Parameters on Service Performance

The Open Internet access Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 requires, inter alia, a clear and comprehensible explanation of remedies in the event of any continuous or regularly recurring discrepancy between the actual performance of internet access service,  regarding speed or other quality of service parameters, and the performance indicated. It is obvious that the actual performance of services is influenced by many factors: properties of access technologies, effects of physical phenomena, capacity of distribution or backhaul networks, traffic management, bandwidth (Mb/s) at the network termination point, QoS parameters, TCP congestion control, signal coverage and terminal interface standards.

Service performance measurement methods should take into account all of these factors, including the impact of established QoS parameter limits (NGN/NGA, Very High Capacity Networks, MEF technical specifications) and requirements for new modern electronic communications services (OTT services, video streaming, eHealth, Smart Home, online gaming, and also 5G-Car2Car2Infrastructure Communications).

This Special Issue of Sensors highlights measurement methods and procedures for determining service performance, advances in the development of available measurement tools, and statistical methods for examining the impact of a range of factors on service performance. 

Dr. Petr Koudelka
Guest Editor

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