122 research outputs found
Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools Metrics, Approaches and Performance
The estimation of the available bandwidth (av bw) between two end nodes through the Internet, is an area that has motivated researchers around the world in the last twenty years, to have faster and more accurate tools; Due to the utility it has in various network applications; Such as routing management, intrusion detection systems and the performance of transport protocols. Different tools use different estimation techniques but generally only analyze the three most used metrics as av bw, relative error and estimation time. This work expands the information regarding the evaluation literature of the current Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools (ABET’s), where they analyze the estimation techniques, metrics, different generation tools of cross-traf?c and evaluation testbed; Concentrating on the techniques and estimation methodologies used, as well as the challenges faced by open-source tools in high-performance networks of 10Gbps or higher
Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools Metrics, Approaches and Performance
The estimation of the available bandwidth (av_bw)
between two end nodes through the Internet, is an area that has
motivated researchers around the world in the last twenty years, to
have faster and more accurate tools; Due to the utility it has in
various network applications; Such as routing management,
intrusion detection systems and the performance of transport
protocols. Different tools use different estimation techniques but
generally only analyze the three most used metrics as av_bw,
relative error and estimation time. This work expands the
information regarding the evaluation literature of the current
Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools (ABET's), where they
analyze the estimation techniques, metrics, different generation
tools of cross-traffic and evaluation testbed; Concentrating on the
techniques and estimation methodologies used, as well as the
challenges faced by open-source tools in high-performance
networks of 10 Gbps or higher
CaracterizaciĂłn de los enlaces de Internet utilizando tecnologĂa de redes activas
This paper presents the design, implementation and trials of a-clink, which is a hop-by-hop
performance estimation tool based on active networks. The paper begins by analyzing different alternatives
of hop-by-hop performance estimation tools: pathchar, clink, pchar and nettimer. Based on this analysis,
several deficiencies are identified on the different tools. In order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of
the estimations, one of the tools is selected, clink, to design an extension based active network technology.
This extension, a-clink, has been implemented over the public domain active network platform SARA. The
implementation of a-clink has been trialed on a simple active network prototype spanning two universities
connected through public Internet, and its results compared with those obtained by the original clink. The
paper concludes describing the advantages of the active version of clink over the conventional passive
performance estimation tool.Publicad
LinkWidth: A Method to Measure Link Capacity and Available Bandwidth using Single-End Probes
We introduce LinkWidth, a method for estimating capacity and available bandwidth using single-end controlled TCP packet probes. To estimate capacity, we generate a train of TCP RST packets "sandwiched" between trains of TCP SYN packets. Capacity is computed from the end-to-end packet dispersion of the received TCP RST/ACK packets corresponding to the TCP SYN packets going to closed ports. Our technique is significantly different from the rest of the packet-pair based measurement techniques, such as CapProbe, pathchar and pathrate, because the long packet trains minimize errors due to bursty cross-traffic. Additionally, TCP RST packets do not generate additional ICMP replies, thus avoiding cross-traffic due to such packets from interfering with our probes. In addition, we use TCP packets for all our probes to prevent QoS-related traffic shaping (based on packet types) from affecting our measurements (eg. CISCO routers by default are known have to very high latency while generating to ICMP TTL expired replies). We extend the {\it Train of Packet Pairs technique to approximate the available link capacity. We use a train of TCP packet pairs with variable intra-pair delays and sizes. This is the first attempt to implement this technique using single-end TCP probes, tested on a range of networks with different bottleneck capacities and cross traffic rates. The method we use for measuring from a single point of control uses TCP RST packets between a train of TCP SYN packets. The idea is quite similar to the technique for measuring the bottleneck capacity. We compare our prototype with pathchirp, pathload, IPERF, which require control of both ends as well as another single end controlled technique abget, and demonstrate that in most cases our method gives approximately the same results if not better
An Overview of Internet Measurements:Fundamentals, Techniques, and Trends
The Internet presents great challenges to the characterization of its structure and behavior. Different reasons contribute to this situation, including a huge user community, a large range of applications, equipment heterogeneity, distributed administration, vast geographic coverage, and the dynamism that are typical of the current Internet. In order to deal with these challenges, several measurement-based approaches have been recently proposed to estimate and better understand the behavior, dynamics, and properties of the Internet. The set of these measurement-based techniques composes the Internet Measurements area of research. This overview paper covers the Internet Measurements area by presenting measurement-based tools and methods that directly influence other conventional areas, such as network design and planning, traffic engineering, quality of service, and network management
A First Step Towards Automatically Building Network Representations
To fully harness Grids, users or middlewares must have some knowledge on the
topology of the platform interconnection network. As such knowledge is usually
not available, one must uses tools which automatically build a topological
network model through some measurements. In this article, we define a
methodology to assess the quality of these network model building tools, and we
apply this methodology to representatives of the main classes of model builders
and to two new algorithms. We show that none of the main existing techniques
build models that enable to accurately predict the running time of simple
application kernels for actual platforms. However some of the new algorithms we
propose give excellent results in a wide range of situations
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