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Challenges in the capture and dissemination of measurements from high-speed networks
journal contribution
posted on 2009-06-19, 08:54 authored by R.G. Clegg, Mark S. Withall, A.W. Moore, Iain PhillipsIain Phillips, David Parish, M. Rio, R. Landa, H. Haddadi, Kostas KyriakopoulosKostas Kyriakopoulos, J. Auge, R. Clayton, D. SalmonThe production of a large-scale monitoring system for a high-speed network leads to a number of challenges. These challenges are not purely technical but also socio-political and legal. The number of stakeholders in such monitoring activity is large including the network operators, the users, the equipment manufacturers and, of course, the monitoring researchers. The MASTS project (measurement at all scales in time and space) was created to instrument the high-speed JANET Lightpath network and has been extended to incorporate other paths supported by JANET(UK). Challenges the project has faced included: simple access to the network; legal issues involved in the storage and dissemination of the captured information, which may be personal; the volume of data captured and the rate at which these data appear at store. To this end, the MASTS system will have established four monitoring points each capturing packets on a high-speed link. Traffic header data will be continuously collected, anonymised, indexed, stored and made available to the research community. A legal framework for the capture and storage of network measurement data has been developed which allows the anonymised IP traces to be used for research purposes.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Citation
CLEGG, R.G....et al., 2009. Challenges in the capture and dissemination of measurements from high-speed networks. IET Communications, 3(6), pp. 957-966.Publisher
© Institution of Engineering and TechnologyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
This article was published in the journal, IET Communications [© Institution of Engineering and Technology] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2008.0068ISSN
1751-8628Language
- en