Description:
Active Scheme for Measuring Latency of Interrupt Coalescence of a Remote Internet Host
NJIT Case No. 18-012
Inventors: Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Khondaker Salehin
Intellectual Property & Development status: Patent Protection is pending.
NJIT is currently seeking commercial partners for the further development and commercialization of this opportunity.
Technology Brief:
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have invented a cost-effective and self-sufficient solution for measuring the time network interfaces spend receiving Internet packets at Internet hosts before they are processed. This information is critical to determine host response time during data communications on the Internet.
Response time of Internet hosts is an important parameter because it plays a major role in determining the performance of various network parameters and helping to monitor network state and geo-temporal data transmissions for delay-sensitive applications, such as end-to-end delay, IP geolocation, and electronic trading. At high transmission speeds, this packet travel is affected by the now common hardware artifact at hosts called interrupt coalescence period (IC period). Currently, no solution is available that can estimate IC period of Internet hosts. This breakthrough invention can estimate IC period of Internet hosts using a client-server based software system. It is a cost-effective solution as it does not require any instrumentation at the point of measurement. Further, it is a self-standing solution as it measures IC with high accuracy and on remote hosts without requiring any administrative and Infrastructural network support.
Applications
• Detection of correct behavior of hosts or servers
• Electronic trading
• End-to-end delay
• IP geolocation
• Synchronization of game, real-time video
• Validate the operation of real-time applications servers
Advantages
• Cost-effective
• Self-sufficient
• Accurate measurement
• Measures IC period in short time
Inventors Bio:
Roberto Rojas-Cessa received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University (currently, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute), Brooklyn, NY, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He has authored the books entitled Advanced Internet Protocols, Services, and Applications, (Wiley, 2012) and Interconnections for Computer Communications and Packet Networks (CRC Press, 2017). His research interest includes the wide area of networking. He serves in different capacities for IEEE conferences and IEEE journals, and as a Panelist for U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy. He was a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2013 from the Newark College of Engineering at NJIT and the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame—Innovators Award in 2013. He was an Invited Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Advancement of Science in 2009.