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Abstract
ISPの運用において,ネットワーク性能の実時間監視やネットワーク特性のオフライン分析を目的として,エンドツーエンドのパケット遅延やロス率などの通信品質をスケーラブルに計測する重要性が高まっている.これまで,対象ネットワークに計測サーバを分散配置し,計測サーバ間の通信品質をアクティブ計測するシステムなど,多数の計測プラットフォームが提案されているが,大規模ネットワークを対象とする場合,計測サーバや専用装置を多地点に設置する必要があり,機器の設置・管理に要するコストが大きくなる問題がある.これに対し,筆者らは,ユーザに計測プログラムを配布し,ユーザPC間でパケットロスやジッタをアクティブ計測することにより,低コストに多数の通信品質計測を実現するシステムを提案する.本稿では,システム実装および効率的な計測パスの計算手法に関して議論する.
ISPs need to measure end-to-end network performance in large scale for the purpose of monitoring customers' performance and provisioning network devices efficiently. Although a variety of infrastructures for active measurement have been extensively developed for research, because most of them aim to clarify some research issues based on a different network model, their application to a commercial ISP's network operation in their present form remains difficult. Especially, a key consideration is cost of distributing measurement servers and maintaining the infrastructure. Therefore, in this paper, an IP performance measurement infrastructure that utilizes user's PCs as beacons is proposed. Probing packets are sent and received among the beacons under the control of a central server. The central server calculates a set of measurement paths which maximizes network coverage under some constraints of user's PCs. The infrastructure is experimentally implemented and evaluated through simulations and real-world experiments and its considerable potential for practical network operations is demonstrated.
Journal
- Technical report of IEICE. CQ [List of Volumes]
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Technical report of IEICE. CQ 110(287), 55-60, 2010-11-11 [Table of Contents]
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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