Ip Performance Management System for ISPs

Atsuo TACHIBANA  Yuichiro HEI  Tomohiko OGISHI  Shigehiro ANO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E93-B   No.4   pp.928-937
Publication Date: 2010/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.928
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network Management/Operation
Keyword: 
active measurement,  OSPF monitoring,  network tomography,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents an IP performance management system having the triple frameworks of performance measurement, topology monitoring and data analysis. The system infers the causal location of the performance degradation with a network tomographic approach. Since the Internet is still highly prone to performance deterioration due to congestion, router failure, and so forth, not only detecting performance deterioration, but also monitoring topology and locating the performance-degraded segments in real-time is vital to ensure that Internet Service Providers can mitigate or prevent such performance deterioration. The system is implemented and evaluated through a real-world experiment and its considerable potential for practical network operations is demonstrated.