| CPC H04L 47/263 (2013.01) [H04L 47/12 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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9. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first core network device from a second core network device, a host responsiveness monitoring request,
wherein the host responsiveness monitoring request indicates at least one host responsiveness parameter associated with a host device that is to be monitored, and
wherein the at least one host responsiveness parameter includes an offset associated with the host device adapting a transmission rate associated with one or more service data flows in response to receiving one or more packets marked with an explicit congestion notification (ECN),
wherein a value of the offset corresponds to a time between when the host device receives the one or more packets marked with the ECN and when the host device adapts a transmission rate associated with the one or more service data flows;
transmitting, by the first core network device and to a third core network device, the host responsiveness monitoring request;
receiving, by the first core network device and from the third core network device, data associated with the at least one host responsiveness parameter associated with the host device; and
transmitting, by the first core network device to the second core network device, a host responsiveness monitoring report including data indicating an actual amount of time between when the host device received the one or more packets marked with the ECN and when the host device adapted the transmission rate associated with the one or more service data flows.
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