ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Towards improving packet probing techniques
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network troubleshooting: research, theory and operations practice meet malfunctioning reality
Improving accuracy in end-to-end packet loss measurement
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A measurement-friendly network (MFN) architecture
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
Scriptroute: a public internet measurement facility
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
ProgME: towards programmable network measurement
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An active measurement system for shared environments
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A programmable architecture for scalable and real-time network traffic measurements
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
On measured behavior of the ARPA network
AFIPS '74 Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
A network processor based passive measurement node
PAM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Rapid prototyping of active measurement tools
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Active probe-based measurements are the foundation for understanding important network path properties such as SLA compliance and available bandwidth. Well-known challenges in active probe-based measurement include the logistics of deploying and managing host-based measurement infrastructures, the load that probe packets place on network resources, the inaccuracy of resultant measurements, and the relatively limited set of features that can be measured. In this paper, we argue that these challenges can be addressed through programmable, router-based support for active measurement. While commercial routers today have some basic capabilities for emitting probe packets, these mechanisms are minimal and do not allow the necessary flexibility in the kinds of probing that can be done. We describe a set of functional primitives that enable a wide range of router-based active measurements and would improve and simplify the ability to assess and understand network structure and dynamic network state. We discuss the associated resource requirements and implications of our approach related to configuration, security and privacy. Finally, we support and illustrate the powerful potential of our approach through a series of measurement scenarios and describe our ongoing efforts toward a Click-based implementation of our framework.