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....minutes. Typically simple probe streams have been used such as isolated probes, and low rate periodic or (pseudo) Poisson streams. On ner time scales, several milliseconds to seconds, periodic as well as more sophisticated probe streams have been employed to measure bottleneck bandwidth [6] 7] [8], 9] 10] and available bandwidth [7] 10] and to investigate the detailed statistical structure of delay and loss [7] 11] 12] 13] 14] However, at such time scales timing problems in common measurement infrastructures can result in measurement errors of the order of the time intervals ....

V. Jacobson, Pathchar { a tool to infer characteristics of Internet paths, available at: http://www.employees.org/bmah/software/pchar/ ed., 1997.

....however, making it difficult for a user to make informed decisions about whether or not it is practical to use the network (for distributed execution or download) at any given time. Users have access to a variety of network performance monitoring tools (SNMP [2] netperf [13] pathchar [12], the Unix ping command, etc. as well as a raft of others currently listed with [10] and [11] All of these tools provide an estimate of past performance conditions. A user wishing to decide between two equivalent download sites must assume that the conditions that have been observed will persist ....

V. Jacobson. A tool to infer characteristics of internet paths. available from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar.

....with certainty, some aspects of Internet behavior can be reasonably described using a deterministic model. In particular, previous work on bandwidth measurement has used a deterministic model along with ltering to t empirical data to that model. 2. 1 The One Packet Model Bellovin [1] Jacobson [8], and Downey [4] measure link bandwidths using what we call the one packet model for packet delay. This model uses the following equation (variables de ned in Table 1) Link 0 Link 1 packet 0 routers d 0 s 0 b 0 d 1 s 0 b 1 packet 0 Time (ms) 0 2 t 0 0 t 0 1 t Figure 1: ....

....the tailgating phase to the pre congestion node to measure all the links before the congested one. The nal limitation is that errors may accumulate during the calculation such that links that are very far away are unmeasurable. The one packet techniques only propagate errors forward one link [8] so they are fairly robust with respect to errors. In our measurements in the next section, the accumulation of error is not noticeable in paths up to length 11. However, quantifying the exact error is part of our future work. 5. MEASUREMENTS The goal of this experiment is to determine whether ....

V. Jacobson. pathchar { a tool to infer characteristics of Internet paths. Presented at the Mathmatical Sciences Research Institute, 1997.

....and Crovella [3, 2] present bprobe and cprobe to measure the bottleneck link speed and competing traffic, respectively, on a path using ICMP ECHO packets. Since these tools do not use TCP, they do not capture any TCP related effects that an application might experience. Van Jacobson s pathchar [7] estimates bandwidth on all hops of a path and hence can take a very long time. It also requires root access, making it less desirable for grid environments. TReno [10] emulates an idealized TCP which makes the measurements independent of host specific TCP implementations but not representative of ....

V. Jacobson. A tool to infer characteristics of internet paths. Technical report, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 1997. Available from http://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar.

.... such as the Globus Metacomputing Directory Service [10] and the Legion Resource Directory Service [8] 4 Performance Monitoring The problems associated with gathering accurate performance measurements from active computational and network resources continue to pose significant research challenges [24,21,5,6,20,8,19]. In general, there is a tension between the intrusiveness of a monitoring technique and the measurement accuracy it provides. The NWS attempts to use both extant performance monitoring utilities and active resource occupancy to measure performance. The current implementation supports measuring ....

....appropriate time out value should be, given the dynamically changing performance characteristics of the underlying system. 8 Related Work Resource performance monitoring and forecasting is an active area of research. Internet performance monitoring and analysis tools such as TReno [22] Pathchar [19], and Carter and Crovella s bprobe cprobe [5,6] attempt to discern Internet congestion characteristics by actively probing the network between designated hosts. We have attempted to design the NWS Sensor interface so that data from these tools can easily be incorporated for forecasting. Topology d ....

V. Jacobson. A tool to infer characteristics of internet paths. available from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar.

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