Patent ID: 7965639

Claim:
A system comprising: a server comprising a processor configured to: transmit to a client packets during each of a two or more measurement phases of a measurement test sequence, wherein a number of transmissions of the measurement phase is represented by a respective trial media access control (MAC)-layer retransmission value from a plurality of trial MAC-layer retransmission values, wherein the respective trial MAC-layer retransmission value is based on the number of transmissions for the at least two measurement trial phases, and wherein the measurement trial sequence comprises the server further adapted to retransmit to the client, one or more trial frames at the MAC-layer as many times as a first MAC-layer retransmission value; receive feedback information associated with each respective measurement phase, wherein the feedback information comprises: (a) a total number of packets never received during the measurement phase, and (b) a total number of packets that arrived after the measurement at a client during the associated measurement; determine an updated MAC-layer retransmission value based on comparing the received feedback information determined at the client for each of the two or more trial MAC-layer retransmission values, comprising a fewest number of packets lost or late arriving during an associated measurement phase; and transmit data packets based on the determined updated MAC-layer retransmission value; at least one network segment; and the client operably coupled to the server via the at least one network segment, the client comprising a processor configured to: determine feedback information related to packets transmitted by the server, wherein the determined information comprises a total number of packets never received by the client during an associated measurement phase and a total number of packets that arrived after the measurement phase; and transmit the determined feedback information.