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Third Frontier Network Measurement Project

This project aims to identify performance bottlenecks in the Third Frontier Network and test new technologies and equipment before wide-scale adoption. It involves comprehensive network measurement infrastructure and case studies on end-to-end performance.

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Third Frontier Network Measurement Project

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  1. Third Frontier Network Measurement ProjectMark Cain, Cincinnati StatePrasad Calyam, OARnetJoint Techs Workshops, Columbus, OH, July 19th, 2004

  2. Overview • History • Project Motivations • Goals and Partners • Work in Progress… • End-to-End Performance Case Study • Conclusion

  3. History • Concept paper • “Learning on Demand for All Ohio Citizens: Building Ohio’s Video Intranet” http://www.oln.org/conferences/OLI2000/pdf/OVI_vision.pdf

  4. Project Motivations • The Third Frontier Network (TFN) funded by the Ohio Board of Regents • A dedicated high-speed fiber-optic network linking Ohio colleges and universities with research facilities to promote research and economic development • Over 1,600 miles of fiber have been purchased to create the network backbone in Ohio to connect colleges and universities, K-12 schools, and communities together

  5. Project Motivations (Contd.) • “TFN Measurement Project” was proposed in late 2003 • To ensure that University campuses can effectively use the advanced networking services the new network provides • Project funding from the Ohio Board of Regents

  6. Partnering Institutions • OARnet (Project Lead and Co-ordination) • University of Cincinnati • Cincinnati State • The Ohio State University • Kent State University • Southern State Community College • University of Toledo • Wright State University

  7. Project Goals • Identify end-to-end performance bottlenecks in TFN by building a comprehensive Network Measurement Infrastructure (NMI) • Test new and advanced technologies and equipment before wide-scale adoption in the TFN Higher Education communities • Technologies: H.323/SIP based Voice and Videoconferencing, MPEG3, HDTV, Multicast, Bulk FTP • Equipment: Video streaming Caches, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Traffic shapers • Bring awareness and train campus-networking professionals to make optimum use of the capabilities of TFN so that their campus network infrastructures can be upgraded suitably

  8. Work in Progress… • Most of the equipment required for the testing has been procured by various partners • Commercial network monitoring packages • appareNet, NetQoS • Other Equipment • Starbak video streaming servers and caching appliances • Polycom Viewstations, Via Video, etc… • Cisco PIX firewall blades, etc… • Vector Packet Shaper • Measurement Servers and Praecis Ct time sources

  9. Work in Progress… (Contd.) • Video and Voice over IP Testing • Traffic performance characterization studies • Using various codecs: audio and video • Via various intermediate devices (Firewalls, Packet Shapers, …) • Under various network conditions (delay, jitter and loss) • Testing both in LAN and Internet • Portions of the results of above studies presented at the Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, France, April 2004 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/pam2004/papers/222.pdf

  10. Work in Progress… (Contd.) • Case studies and best practices for H.323 Videoconferencing • Using H.323 Beacon tool features • Paper to be presented at the ACM SIGCOMM Network Troubleshooting Workshop, Portland, Oct 2004 http://www.itecohio.org/beacon/h323beacon_sig.pdf • Planning currently underway for: • Evaluating video streaming cache performance • Bulk FTP transfer performance

  11. Work in Progress… (Contd.) • Network Measurement Infrastructure • Comprehensive toolkit for measuring various network performance parameters • Using open-source and commercial measurement tools • Enhancing H.323 Beacon tool, developed by OARnet and supported in part by Internet2 • Deploying Netflow tools developed at OSU and OARnet at various campus and network backbone locations • Building a weather map for routine TFN monitoring • Pilot deployment of a measurement testbed at UC and OSU via OARnet backbone • End-to-End Performance Case Study • To be expanded to cover entire TFN backbone

  12. Network Measurement Toolkit • Tools used for network performance data collection • Ping(Delay) Open Source • Traceroute(Topology) Open Source • appareNet (Hop-by-Hop Performance) Commercial • Iperf(TCP/UDP Bandwidth Performance) Open Source • Pathchar(Hop-by-Hop performance) Open Source • Pathload(Available Bandwidth) Open Source • Pathrate(Bottleneck Bandwidth) Open Source • OWAMP(Precise Delay) Open Source • H.323 Beacon (Voice/Video Performance) Open Source • NetQoS(Application Response Time)Commercial

  13. Testbed for End-to-EndPerformance Case Study

  14. Paths being Measured

  15. Timetable Concept for avoidingtest conflicts

  16. Example: Path 6 Data Analysis

  17. Network Topology Change Analysis using Traceroute

  18. RTT Value Comparisons of Various Tools for Route Change

  19. Loss Value Comparisons of Various Tools for Route Change

  20. Jitter Value Comparisons of Various Tools for Route Change

  21. MOS Values of H.323 Beacon for Route Change

  22. Bandwidth Values of Various Tools for Route Change

  23. Thanks! • Scripts Development and Data Analysis • Mukundan Sridharan, Dima Krymskiy • Project Management • Steve Gordon, Paul Schopis • OSU Border and Lab Deployment • Prof. David Lee, Dave Kneisly, Arif Khan, Weiping Mandrawa • UC Border and Lab Deployment • Prof. Jerry Paul, Prof. Fred Annexstein, Bruce Burton, Bill Bohmer, Tom Ridgeway, Michal Kouril, Diana Noelcke • Tools Deployment • Loki Jorgenson, Chris Norris (appareNet) • Jeff Boote, Joe Metzger, John Moore, Chintan Desai (OWAMP) • Leandro Lustoza (H.323 Beacon E-Model implementation)

  24. Questions? For more information:http://tfn.oar.net/measurement

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