Inferring Available Bandwidth of Overlay Network Paths Based on Inline Network Measurement

  • Authors:
  • Cao Le Thanh Man;Go Hasegawa;Masayuki Murata

  • Affiliations:
  • Osaka University;Osaka University;Osaka University

  • Venue:
  • ICIMP '07 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce ImSystem, a distributed system that infers real-time information concerning the available bandwidth of all of the paths i n the overlay networks, using a technique called inline network measurement. The key concept in ImSystem is that, when the overlay hosts transmit overlay traffic, they deploy the traffic to perform inline network measurements and exchange results with each other. ImSystem performs supplemental active measurements only when overlay trafic is insuficient for inline measurements, and therefore injects very little probe trafic onto the network. In addition, we enhance the system t o ImSystemPlus, in which conflicts of the supplemental active measurements are greatly reduced, providing that the IP network topology is known. The simulation results show that the proposed systems have the same accuracy as that when all paths are measured by active measurements, while using only a small amount of probe traffic.