Referring to FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary method flow diagram [300], depicting a method for identifying nodes with packet loss in a wireless communication network [100], in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention. The method starts at step [302]. At step [304] the central probe server [112] establishes a Two-Way Active Management Protocol [TWAMP] session with the plurality of nodes [101]. At step [306] the central probe server [112] probes the plurality of nodes [101] for packet loss for a time duration ΔT over the TWAMP session. As also described above with reference to FIG. 1, TWAMP is an open protocol for measuring network performance between any two devices in a network that supports the protocols in the TWAMP framework as also shown in FIG. 4.
The TWAMP is used to check Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance. In operation, the central probe server [112] acts as a control client [402] and a session-sender [408] to each of the plurality of nodes [101] and getting packet loss data (for instance, a count of packets lost during transmission) for each flow with a frequency of, say, 1 minute. Each of the plurality of nodes [101] acts as a server [406] and a session-reflector [412].
