sMonitor: a non-intrusive client-perceived end-to-end performance monitor of secured internet services

  • Authors:
  • Jianbin Wei;Cheng-Zhong Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Wayne State University;Wayne State University

  • Venue:
  • ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

End-to-end performance measurement is fundamental to building high-performance Internet services. While many Internet services often operate using HTTP over SSL/TLS, current monitors are limited to plaintext HTTP services. This paper presents sMonitor, a non-intrusive server-side end-to-end performance monitor that can monitor HTTPS services. The monitor passively collects live packet traces from a server site. It then uses a size-based analysis method on HTTP requests to infer characteristics of client accesses and measures client-perceived pageview response time in real time. We designed and implemented a prototype of sMonitor. Preliminary evaluations show measurement error of less than 5%.