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Active monitoring of delays with asymmetric routes

Joanna Moulierac
Miklos Molnar

Abstract

There is an increasing interest in network monitoring recently. Indeed, knowledge of link characteristics is of significant importance in order to provide efficient routing. In this paper, we consider active network monitoring of link delays in a Service Provider or Enterprise IP network using round trip delays. Our proposition guarantees that all links are monitored contrary to previous propositions. Indeed, previous propositions assume symmetric routing in networks when placing the monitoring stations. With this assumption, round trips may be different when routes are asymmetric and link delays are not significant. We say that links are not monitored in this case. Previous propositions do not monitor 5.76% of links in average and 10% in worst cases during our simulations while we monitor always 100% of links. Moreover, in our proposition, the amount of traffic is reduced and the measures are more precise since the distance from a monitoring station (beacon) to the edges is limited by a given bound. Indeed, probe messages use short paths, traverse less routers and less links with our proposition. Finally, the number of beacons is not increased compared to the previous heuristic and so the installation and maintenance costs are minimized.

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inria-00070372 , version 1 (19-05-2006)

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Joanna Moulierac, Miklos Molnar. Active monitoring of delays with asymmetric routes. [Research Report] RR-5635, INRIA. 2005, pp.16. ⟨inria-00070372⟩
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