Graph-based Tool for Bandwidth Estimation, Health Monitoring and Update Planning in Broadband Networks

This paper focuses on the genesis and evolution of our specific Company tool. It is aimed to tackle the problem of verifying the health status and availability of residual bandwidth between any node over the Lepida ScpA broadband network. In fact, there must be a correspondence between active contractual obligations signed by local network operators and the physical bandwidth which we allocate. This is the key factor that must be addressed in the early phases when processing any bandwidth requests from local customers. Before the introduction of our tool, this verification process has been carried out almost manually with a substantial cost in terms of time. The adoption of this in-house developed tool allowed us to substantially shrink of the verification time required and to provide an overview of the network status. Our tool is grounded on building a graph representation of the network and on well known graph algorithms.