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The case for an Open and Scalable Internet Measurements Service. Benoit Donnet, Olivier Bonaventure Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) NeXtworking Workshop - April 2007. Evolution of expectations. Servers are evolving. Networks are evolving. Increasing interest in multihoming
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The case for an Open and Scalable Internet Measurements Service • Benoit Donnet, Olivier Bonaventure • Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) • NeXtworking Workshop - April 2007
Networks are evolving • Increasing interest in multihoming • At least 60% of the stub domains are multihomed ([Agarwal03])
Quality of Service • Yesterday QoS problem was • How to find a QoS path between A & B? • Today, QoS problem becomes • Among B1, B2, ..., Bn, how to maximise the QoS perceived by A by contacting one or a few Bi?
How to solve the QoS problem? • Each application contains its own set of measurements and heuristics • Inefficient • Non scalable
Can we do better? • IETF’s IPPM WG • Standardized methods to collect accurate measurements • What’s missing? • An Open & Scalable Measurements Service (OSIMS) that can be used by any application
OSIMS (2) • Continuous service • Always on infrastructure type service • Provides an API that can be queried by applications to obtain predictions/measurements on • Delay • Bandwidth • Topology • Geolocation
Research Challenges • How to efficiently perform measurements? • avoid redundancy • avoid burdening the network • How to ensure security/reliability? • limit the risk of attack/disturbance • How to query data? • scattered among participants