The paper presents an experimental comparison of device synchronization strategies to monitor quality of service (QoS) time metrics, such as the one-way delay and the delay variation. The compared strategies are based on global positioning system (GPS), public Internet network time protocol (NTP) servers and ad hoc GPS-based NTP servers with different treatments of the NTP traffic. The presented experimental results allow to quantitatively evaluate the level of performance achievable using each synchronization technique. Finally, considering a satellite test bed, we focus our analysis on two relevant aspects of time metrics monitoring: the impact of the synchronization errors on the metrics observation and the different values that can be measured when a metric is monitored at the application or data link level. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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