KR20050114436A - Internet quality measurement system and a method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system for measuring internet quality experienced by a user. Internet quality measurement system according to the present invention, at least one application server for providing an application; A plurality of measurement devices installed in each region and communicating with the application server according to a predetermined test schedule to analyze the results; And a recorder having information about an application server, providing a test schedule to a plurality of measuring equipments installed in each region, and receiving an analysis result to comprehensively evaluate the user experience internet quality.

Description

Internet quality measurement system and a method

The present invention relates to an internet quality measurement system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to measure an internet quality that a user actually experiences by communicating with an application server that users prefer to access by using measurement equipment distributed and distributed in each region. It's about technology that can be done.

In general, network performance is based on user-proven methods of ping, traceroute, etc., Round Trip Time (RTT), HOP count (the number of gateways through which packets arrive from the local host to the destination). This is done by measuring the loss, or by measuring the transmission speed when downloading files from a server installed at a specific point.

 However, in this method, the measured value is calculated differently according to the packet size. Especially, in the case of ping, when the echo reply is set to disable, the measurement itself is impossible. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately measure the quality of the application network in the user environment.

In order to overcome this problem, a method of measuring network quality by installing software for measuring network performance on a user's personal PC and analyzing a profile used by a customer on a server has been proposed.

However, such a method also has a problem in that the installation is often not performed from the user's point of view due to the leakage of personal information, and the user must upgrade the quality directly when the measurement method is changed.

Therefore, in the conventional Internet quality measurement, performance measurement from the network provider's point of view becomes mainstream, and there is a problem that it is difficult to measure the Internet quality from an individual user's perspective.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and the Internet quality measurement system and method for providing a practical Internet quality evaluation that the user feels by measuring and centrally analyzing the performance of the application as a user environment The purpose is to provide.

Internet quality measurement system according to the present invention for achieving the above object, at least one application server for providing an application; A plurality of measurement devices installed in each region and communicating with the application server according to a predetermined test schedule and analyzing the results; And a recorder having information about the application server, providing the test schedule to the plurality of measuring devices installed in each region, and receiving the analysis result to evaluate the comprehensive internet quality.

In this case, preferably, an emulation schema for automatically communicating the measurement equipment and the application server is generated, and the test schedule is created using the emulation scheme.

And preferably, the measuring device performs the analysis based on the transmission rate calculated from the result of communicating with the application server.

And preferably, the test schedule includes a schedule for evaluating best Internet performance, and the measurement equipment performs the analysis based on the best Internet performance.

And preferably, the comprehensive Internet quality assessment includes any one of time-phase quality assessment and regional quality assessment, the application server is composed of any one of a web server, FTP server, and streaming server.

On the other hand, the Internet quality measurement method according to the invention, the step of storing information about one or more application server for providing an application over the Internet; Transmitting a test schedule for measuring internet quality through communication with the application server to a plurality of the measuring devices installed in each region; Receiving a result of analyzing a communication process with the application server according to the test schedule from a plurality of measurement equipment installed in each region; And evaluating comprehensive internet quality according to the analysis results received from the plurality of measurement equipment.

In this case, preferably, the method further comprises: generating an emulation schema for automatically communicating between the measurement equipment and the application server; And creating and transmitting the test schedule using the emulation schema.

And preferably, the communication process analysis is a data rate analysis.

And preferably, the test schedule comprises a schedule for evaluating best Internet performance, wherein the measurement equipment performs the analysis based on the best Internet performance.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail an embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a block diagram of an internet quality measurement system according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the present Internet quality measurement system includes at least one application server 10 providing an application, a plurality of regions installed in each region, and communicating with the application server 10 according to a predetermined test schedule to analyze the results. It has information about the measuring equipment (32, 34, 36), and the application server 10, and provides the test schedule to the plurality of measuring equipment (32, 34, 36) installed in each region, It includes a recorder 60 for receiving the analysis results to evaluate the comprehensive Internet quality.

The application server 10 is a server for providing an application to be measured as the Internet quality, and is composed of a web server, FTP server, streaming server, etc., preferably to more closely match the user's haptic Internet quality, It consists of a server of users' favorite websites, FTP sites, and streaming sites.

Measurement equipment 32, 34, 36 installed in each region communicates with the application server 10 under the control of the recorder 60, analyzes the communication process to determine the file transfer time, packet loss rate, etc. The Internet quality of the area is measured and the result is provided to the recorder 60. At this time, the measurement equipment 32, 34, 36 may be composed of a PC and a rack-mounted PC of the user environment.

The recorder 60 includes a target DB, which is information about an application server 10 that provides an application to be used when measuring Internet quality, and communicates with the application server 10 stored in the target DB, and is distributed in each region. Control the measuring equipment (32, 34, 36), to provide the operator with a report measuring the Internet quality.

Hereinafter, a detailed operation of the Internet quality measurement system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 2.

Referring to FIG. 2, the recorder 60 transmits an application request signal to execute an application for each of the application servers 10 stored in the target DB (S100). At this time, the application request signal has a form such as "http://www.abc.com" or "ftp://ftp.abc.com".

When the application request signal as described above is received from the recorder 60 through the internet network, the application server 10 transmits a response signal corresponding thereto (S105). In this case, when the application request signal transmitted by the recorder 60 is a signal for requesting a web page, the response may include receiving a source code corresponding to the requested web page, an image or a flash on the received source code. If there is, the process consists of receiving the image or flash sequentially from the application server 10.

3 illustrates an embodiment of source code corresponding to a web page that may be received when an application request signal for requesting a web page is transmitted. Referring to FIG. 3, when the source code shown in FIG. 3 is received, the recorder 60 requests and receives seven GIF files from the application server 10 based on the source code.

Thereafter, the recorder 60 records and analyzes the processes of S100 and S105 (S110).

In this case, when the web page corresponding to FIG. 3 is requested, the contents stored in step S110 are performed as shown in Table 1 below as the steps S100 and S105 are executed.

start End First step DNS inquiry DNS response 2nd step TCP connection setup TCP connection complete 3rd step HTTP Acquisition HTTP Acquisition Complete 4th step HTML page download HTML page download complete 5th step Download images and frames embedded in HTML Download images and frames embedded in HTML

In operation S115, an emulation schema for automatically requesting a corresponding application is generated based on the analysis result in S110.

In this case, steps S100 to S115 are executed for each of the application servers 10 stored in the target DB.

Thereafter, the recorder 60 generates a test schedule for measuring internet quality when the emulation scheme for each application server 10 is completed (S120). In this case, the test schedule includes a time for performing a test, information of an application server 10 requesting an application to perform a test, and preferably includes a schedule for requesting an application at night time to measure the best Internet performance. do. The test schedule is generated using the above-described emulation scheme, so that the measurement equipment 32, 34, 36 that receives the schedule automatically communicates with the application server according to the schedule. Thereafter, the test schedule is transmitted to the measurement equipment 32, 34, 36 installed in each region (S130, S135).

Each of the measuring devices 32, 34, and 36 transmits an application request signal to the corresponding application server 10 according to the received test schedule (S140 and S145) and receives a response (S150 and S155). In this case, the test schedule is created using the emulation schema, so the application can be executed without any additional manipulation. Then, the Internet quality is analyzed by calculating a data transmission rate and a packet loss rate from the process of communicating with the application server 10 (S160, S165). At this time, the Internet quality analysis is preferably based on the best Internet performance calculated according to the test schedule. The analysis result is then provided to the recorder 60 (S170 and S175).

The recorder 60 creates a comprehensive internet quality report according to the internet quality analysis result received from the measuring equipment 32, 34, 36 installed in each region (S180). At this time, the Internet quality report can be divided into regions and time zones.

By the above method, it is possible to more accurately measure the Internet quality experienced by the user.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to accurately determine the quality of the Internet experienced by the user, thereby providing a higher quality internet service.

In addition, a preferred embodiment of the present invention is for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to various modifications, changes, substitutions and additions through the spirit and scope of the appended claims, such modifications and changes are the following claims It should be seen as belonging to a range.

1 is a block diagram of an Internet quality measurement system according to the present invention.

2 is a flowchart showing a method for measuring internet quality according to the present invention;

3 is a view provided to explain the operation of the present invention.

Claims (12)

One or more application servers providing applications; A plurality of measurement devices installed in each region and communicating with the application server according to a predetermined test schedule and analyzing the results; And And a recorder having information about the application server and providing the test schedule to the plurality of measuring devices installed in each region, and receiving the analysis result to comprehensively evaluate the user experience internet quality. Internet quality assessment system. The method of claim 1, wherein the recorder, And an emulation schema for automatically communicating the measurement equipment and the application server, and using the same to create the test schedule. The method of claim 1, The test schedule includes a schedule for evaluating best Internet performance, And said measuring equipment performs said analysis on the basis of said best Internet performance evaluation result. The method of claim 1, wherein the measuring equipment, And performing the analysis on the basis of a transmission rate calculated from a result of communicating with the application server. The method of claim 1, The comprehensive Internet quality evaluation system includes any one of time-based quality evaluation and regional quality evaluation. The method of claim 1, The application server is any one of a web server, FTP server, and streaming server, the Internet quality evaluation system. Storing information about one or more application servers providing applications over the Internet; Transmitting a test schedule for measuring internet quality through communication with the application server to a plurality of measuring devices installed in each region; Receiving a result of analyzing a communication process with the application server according to the test schedule from a plurality of measurement equipment installed in each region; And And comprehensively evaluating user haptic internet quality according to the analysis results received from the plurality of measuring devices. The method of claim 7, wherein the test schedule transmission step, Generating an emulation schema for automatically communicating between the measurement equipment and the application server; And And generating and transmitting the test schedule by using the emulation schema. The method of claim 7, wherein the test schedule, Includes a schedule to evaluate best Internet performance, And the measuring instrument performs the analysis on the basis of the best internet performance. The method of claim 7, wherein the communication process analysis, Internet quality evaluation method, characterized in that the data rate analysis. The method of claim 7, wherein the comprehensive Internet quality assessment, Internet quality evaluation method comprising any one of time-based quality evaluation and regional quality evaluation. The method of claim 7, wherein the application server, Internet quality evaluation method, characterized in that any one of a web server, FTP server, and streaming server.