Patent ID: 7706279

Claim:
A communication performance measurement method of measuring communication performance in a communication network including a plurality of relaying apparatuses each relaying a packet representing information, wherein when a relaying apparatus relays a predetermined measurement packet, the relaying apparatus adds information according to each relaying in the relaying apparatus to the predetermined measurement packet to relay the predetermined measurement packet with the information, and wherein the communication performance measurement method comprises: designating-packet-transferring of transferring, through a transmitting apparatus connected to the communication network, a designating packet to a measurement target section for which a communication performance is measured in the communication network, the designating packet designating a relaying apparatus which adds information to a measurement packet from among the plurality of relaying apparatuses; measurement-packet-transmitting of transmitting, for the transmitting apparatus connected to one end of the measurement target section, a measurement packet; and measurement-packet-collecting of collecting, for a receiving apparatus connected to the communication network, the measurement packet transferred by the measurement target section from among measurement packets transmitted by the plurality of relaying apparatuses in the measurement-packet-transmitting.