A Survey for Real-Time Network Performance Measurement via Machine Learning

Abstract: Real-Time Networks (RTNs) provide latency guarantees for time-critical applications and it aims to support different traffic categories via various scheduling mechanisms. Those scheduling mechanisms rely on a precise network performance measurement to dynamically adjust the scheduling strategies. Machine Learning (ML) offers an iterative procedure to measure network performance. Network Calculus (NC) can calculate the bounds for the main performance indexes such as latencies and throughputs in an RTN for ML. Thus, the ML and NC integration improve overall calculation efficiency. This paper will provide a survey for different approaches of Real-Time Network performance measurement via NC as well as ML and present their results, dependencies, and application scenarios.