The Heisenberg principle could affect the FCC’s attempt to measure...
The Heisenberg principle could affect the FCC’s attempt to measure broadband performance across the country, an AT&T engineer said at a recent meeting of the Next-Generation Measurement Architecture Standardization and Outreach Group, according to an ex parte notice (http://xrl.us/bm52jn). “Extensive…
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performance measurements could, themselves, impact performance,” the notice said. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle implies that attempts to take very fine measurements could themselves affect what is being measured. The notice relayed the concerns of engineer Tom Anschutz, who proposed a passive server-based metric collection approach focused on end-to-end quality of experience to “both complement and independently validate a sampling based approach using active measurement.” A CenturyLink representative expressed concern that customer access to active measurement approaches could impact network performance, the filing said.