ue 16(11): e3

Research Article

A GLIMPSE of the Internet’s Fabric

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670,
    author={Michael Faath and Rolf Winter},
    title={A GLIMPSE of the Internet’s Fabric},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Internet},
    volume={3},
    number={11},
    publisher={ACM},
    journal_a={UE},
    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
    UE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670
Michael Faath1,*, Rolf Winter1
  • 1: University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
*Contact email: michael.faath@hs-augsburg.de

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.

Keywords
network measurement, measurement platform, end-to-end measurements
Published
2016-01-04
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-12-2015.2262670

Copyright © 2015 M. Faath and R. Winter, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.