Research Article
A GLIMPSE of the Internet’s Fabric
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670, author={Michael Faath and Rolf Winter}, title={A GLIMPSE of the Internet’s Fabric}, proceedings={9th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS}, year={2016}, month={1}, keywords={network measurement measurement platform end-to-end measurements}, doi={10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670} }- Michael Faath
Rolf Winter
Year: 2016
A GLIMPSE of the Internet’s Fabric
VALUETOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670
Abstract
Network measurements are essential for network operations and troubleshooting. A number of network measurement projects have developed measurement platforms to not only assess the state of individual networks and services but target certain aspects of the Internet as a whole. Measuring any aspect of the Internet is challenging for various reasons such as the sheer scale of the Internet or the dynamics of it. Building and operating a platform that has Internet-wide network measurements as a goal is therefore challenging. In this paper, GLIMPSE-an end user-based network measurement platform-is introduced and its architecture is described in detail. GLIMPSE is an attempt to build a measurement platform based on standard measurement techniques, external logic to trigger measurements and last but not least community support.
