Network delay tomography

  • Authors:
  • Yolanda Tsang;M. Coates;R.D. Nowak

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The substantial overhead of performing internal network monitoring motivates techniques for inferring spatially localized information about performance using only end-to-end measurements. In this paper, we present a novel methodology for inferring the queuing delay distributions across internal links in the network based solely on unicast, end-to-end measurements. The major contributions are: 1) we formulate a measurement procedure for estimation and localization of delay distribution based on end-to-end packet pairs; 2) we develop a simple way to compute maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm; 3) we develop a new estimation methodology based on recently proposed nonparametric, wavelet-based density estimation method; and 4) we optimize the computational complexity of the EM algorithm by developing a new fast Fourier transform implementation. Realistic network simulations are carried out using network-level simulator ns-2 to demonstrate the accuracy of the estimation procedure.