Low-Overhead End-to-end Performance Measurement for Next Generation Networks

Pezaros, Dimitrios and Hoerdt, Mickael and Hutchison, David (2011) Low-Overhead End-to-end Performance Measurement for Next Generation Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 8 (1). pp. 1-14.

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Abstract

Internet performance measurement is commonly perceived as a high-cost control-plane activity and until now it has tended to be implemented on top of the network's forwarding operation. Consequently, measurement mechanisms have often had to trade relevance and accuracy over non-intrusiveness and cost effectiveness. In this paper, we present the software implementation of an in-line measurement mechanism that uses native structures of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) stack to piggyback measurement information on data-carrying traffic as this is routed between two points in the network. We carefully examine the overhead associated with both the measurement process and the measurement data, and we demonstrate that direct two-point measurement has minimal impact on throughput and on system processing load. The results of this paper show that adequately engineered measurement mechanisms that exploit selective processing do not compromise the network's forwarding efficiency, and can be deployed in an always-on manner to reveal the true performance of network traffic over small timescales.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1705
Subjects:
?? computer instrumentation computer networks computer performancenetwork measurementnext generation networkingcomputer networks and communicationselectrical and electronic engineering ??
ID Code:
60720
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Deposited On:
14 Dec 2012 11:36
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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