TY - GEN
T1 - Realistic passive packet loss measurement for high-speed networks
AU - Friedl, Aleš
AU - Ubik, Sven
AU - Kapravelos, Alexandros
AU - Polychronakis, Michalis
AU - Markatos, Evangelos P.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Realistic and accurate packet loss measurement of production traffic has been challenging, since the frequently-used active monitoring approaches using probe packets cannot capture the packet loss experienced by the traffic of individual user applications. In this paper, we present a new approach for the accurate measurement of the packet loss rate faced by actual production traffic based on passive network monitoring. In contrast to previous work, our method is able to pinpoint the packet loss rate experienced by the individual traffic flows of concurrently running applications. Experimental results suggest that our approach measures packet loss with 100% accuracy for network speeds as high as 12 Gbit/s, while traditional ICMP-based approaches were usually much less accurate. We also report experiences from a real-world deployment of our method in several 10 Gbit/s links of European research networks, where it has been successfully operational for several months.
AB - Realistic and accurate packet loss measurement of production traffic has been challenging, since the frequently-used active monitoring approaches using probe packets cannot capture the packet loss experienced by the traffic of individual user applications. In this paper, we present a new approach for the accurate measurement of the packet loss rate faced by actual production traffic based on passive network monitoring. In contrast to previous work, our method is able to pinpoint the packet loss rate experienced by the individual traffic flows of concurrently running applications. Experimental results suggest that our approach measures packet loss with 100% accuracy for network speeds as high as 12 Gbit/s, while traditional ICMP-based approaches were usually much less accurate. We also report experiences from a real-world deployment of our method in several 10 Gbit/s links of European research networks, where it has been successfully operational for several months.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/67650305936
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01645-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01645-5_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650305936
SN - 9783642016448
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 7
BT - Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - First International Workshop, TMA 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2009
Y2 - 11 May 2009 through 11 May 2009
ER -