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

Research Article

A scalable framework for representation and exchange of network measurements

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649176,
        author={Jason  Zurawski and Martin  Swany and Dan  Gunter},
        title={A scalable framework for representation and exchange of network 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.2006.1649176}
    }
    
  • Jason Zurawski
    Martin Swany
    Dan Gunter
    Year: 2006
    A scalable framework for representation and exchange of network measurements
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649176
Jason Zurawski1,*, Martin Swany1,*, Dan Gunter2,*
  • 1: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
  • 2: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
*Contact email: zurawski@cis.udel.edu, swany@cis.udel.edu, dkgunter@lbl.gov

Abstract

Grid and distributed computing environments are evolving rapidly and driving the development of system and network technologies. The design of applications has placed an increased emphasis upon adapting application behavior based on the performance of the network. In addition, network operators and network researchers are naturally interested in gathering and studying network performance information. This work presents an extensible framework for the storage and exchange of performance measurements. Leveraging existing storage and exchange mechanisms, the proposed framework is capable of handling a wide variety of measurements while delivering performance comparable to that of less flexible, ad-hoc solutions.