2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Research Article

CMT II: an agent based framework for comprehensive IP measurements

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649168,
        author={Thomas  Pfeiffenberger and Thomas  Fichtel},
        title={CMT II: an agent based framework for comprehensive IP measurements},
        proceedings={2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2006},
        month={7},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649168}
    }
    
  • Thomas Pfeiffenberger
    Thomas Fichtel
    Year: 2006
    CMT II: an agent based framework for comprehensive IP measurements
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649168
Thomas Pfeiffenberger1,*, Thomas Fichtel1,*
  • 1: Advanced Networking Center, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
*Contact email: tpfeiff@salzburgresearch.at, tfichtel@salzburgresearch.at

Abstract

The Communication Measurement Tool II (CMT II) is a framework for comprehensive IP measurements. It is the next development stage of the succeeded measurement framework called CMToolset. The purpose of a distributed measurement framework, like CMT II, is to provide detailed information about the network for performance evaluation, network engineering or detecting network problems. Regarding this point CMT II operates on different layers of the OSI layer model, as well as it is designed in an open structure in order to allow further extensions for upcoming protocols, networks and applications. Furthermore CMT II is designed to conduct active as well as passive measurements. CMT II is based on the agent framework JADE, which allows the deployment of measurement agents on different platforms and the interaction with other agent frameworks. Unlike other measurement tools, CMT II can also be applied on wireless or mobile scenarios to study the influences of wireless and mobile data transmissions.