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....This data set was generated by tracing multicast paths between a local source site and a large number of external IP addresses. The external IP addresses have been known to have participated in multicast groups at some point over the last 10 years. These IP addresses were collected by the mlisten [16] tool which joins multicast groups advertised on the well known Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) address (SAP.MCAST.NET) and collects RTCP packets from the group members. In this way, the mwalk authors were able to trace nearly 2000 multicast paths. These traces were conducted within the last ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten) , Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996, Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....MantaRay [ 10 ] is a visualization tool for mrwatch mrinfo[ 11 ] which can be used to query a multicast router for information about its interfaces and neighbors. Other tools such as mstat, mrtree and mview [ 12 ] collect data using SNMP [ 13,14 ] Still other tools such as mlisten[ 15 ], rtpmon[ 16 ] and sdr monitor [ 17 ] collect data at the application layer. Netstat provides information about the local machine configuration. Tools such as mrinfo, map mbone are DVMRP specific and are not useful in the current multicast infrastructure. Taxonomies of useful multicast tools ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....This data set is generated by tracing multicast paths between a local source site and a large number of external IP addresses. The external IP addresses have been known to have participated in multicast groups at some point over the last 10 years. These IP addresses were collected by the mlisten[11] tool which joins multicast groups advertised on the well known Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) address (SAP.MCAST.NET) and collects RTCP packets from the group members. In this way, the mwalk authors were able to trace nearly 2000 multicast paths. These traces were conducted within the last ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....of data streams like audio and video. Packets from RTP and RTCP contain usage and quality information as observed by each participant. This information is sent to all group members. These statistics form the basis for monitoring results. Some of the tools that fall in this category include mlisten[12, 13] for monitoring multicast group membership and rtpmon[14] for collecting data about realtime loss and jitter statistics. ffl Using SAP data for monitoring. SAP announcements form another source of data useful for monitoring purposes. SAP is a common mechanism for advertising current and future ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....statistics from RTCP packets. A list of receivers is displayed in the RTPmon window along with their last reported loss. Clicking on the receiver name will display additional receiver information, and clicking on loss percentage will chart the loss and jitter for that receiver over time. Mlisten [19] was created at Georgia Tech and uses RTCP packets to collect group size statistics for all advertised MBone groups. Mlisten can be used to generate information about join and leave statistics, connection time characteristics, and multicast tree size and characteristics. MultiMON [20] was written ....

....MHealth is unique among the multicast monitoring and logging tools available for the MBone. It is the only tool to correlate the RTCP group information and mtrace 70 topology information simultaneously. Other tools either focus only on RTCP participant information (vat [17] rtpmon [18] mlisten [19], multimon [20] or focus only on route or router information (mtrace [35] mrinfo [24] mstat [21] mrtree [22] mantra [29] The closest tool to MHealth is mview [23] but this requires both SNMP access to all of the routers and manual intervention to build a tree. MHealth is the only tool that ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....require large numbers of traces. Other tools, such as mstat, mrtree, and mview[19] collect data directly from routers via SNMP[1] The limitation with SNMP based tools is that they are typically only useful for intra domain monitoring. Still another class of monitoring tools, including Mlisten[20], rtpmon[21] and sdr Monitor[22] collect data at the application layer. While these tools provide important results, they provide little information about the network, router state, and network protocol operation. 3 Goals and Challenges Monitoring multicast networks on a global scale requires ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....tools are more suitable for performing monitoring on an Intranet. Another factor that limits SNMP based tools are the lack of updated standards and Management Information Bases (MIBs) for the newer multicast protocols. A final set of tools use RTCP to monitor group ac2 tivity. For example, Mlisten[11, 12] monitors multicast group membership and RTPmon[13] collects data about realtime loss and jitter statistics. The biggest drawback with RTCP is that not all the multicast applications adhere to the RTCP standard and, hence, RTCP data is not available for all the session participants. In addition, ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....Protocol (RTP) and its associated control protocol the Realtime Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) 6] Many of the multicast tools use RTCP to create a list of group members. RTPmon[7] collects and displays this information along with real time statistics about packet loss and jitter. Mlisten[8] uses RTCP packets to collect and archive group statistics for all MBone groups advertised through sdr. MultiMON[9] monitors the multicast traffic on a local network segment and provides graphs on media types and amounts. In addition to these tools, there are several SNMP based management tools. ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....a two step process: 1) capturing RTP RTCP packets, and (2) post processing the raw data. Details about the data collection process are described in the following sections. A. Capturing Group Membership Data was collected using a modified version of the publicly available collection tool Mlisten[14]. Mlisten collects information about multicast group membership using the following method: 1. Mlisten joins the well know sdr multicast group address and listens for session advertisements. 2. For advertised sessions heard at the collection site, Mlisten joins the multicast group and port number ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....4.2 Methodology Data was collected for this research using two tools during the time in which the session was happening, and one additional tool for post event processing. The types of data collected and the tools used for each include: ffl Group membership using mlisten: The mlisten tool[15] was used to collect group membership, join inter arrival time, and membership duration information for each component of the two IETF channels. The mlisten tool works by joining each multicast group and noting the arrival of RTCP packets from each group receiver. This data is archived and can be ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....tool suite requires Tcl 8.0, Tk 4.2, a modified TCPdump (included) xplot (included) tcl dp (included) and stooop (included) While many of the required files are included, it can be time consuming to install all the tools and ensure everything is working properly. 4. 6 Mlisten The mlisten tool[31] is more of a research tool, but it has potential uses for monitoring group membership in an enterprise. Its basic purpose is to collect group membership data for a specific set of groups. This set of groups is gathered from the sessions advertised via sdr. Mlisten typically collects data for all ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten). Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....based on Real Time (Control) Protocol (RT(C)P) 4] packets. The MBone vat tool is one of the primary MBone audio tools and it uses RTCP packets to create a list of group members. RTPmon[5] collects and displays this information along with real time statistics about packet loss and jitter. Mlisten[6] uses RTCP packets to collect and archive group statistics for all MBone groups advertised through sdr. MultiMON[7] monitors the multicast traffic on a local network segment and provides graphs on traffic type and amounts. In addition to these tools, there are several SNMP based management tools. ....

K. Almeroth, Multicast Group Membership Collection Tool (mlisten) . Georgia Institute of Technology, September 1996. Available from http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/mbone/.

....4.2 Methodology Data was collected for this research using two tools during the time in which the session was happening, and one additional tool for post event processing. The types of data collected and the tools used for each include: ffl Group membership using mlisten: The mlisten tool[15] was used to collect group membership, join inter arrival time, and membership duration information for each component of the two IETF channels. The mlisten tool works by joining each multicast group and noting the arrival of RTCP packets from each group receiver. This data is archived and can be ....

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