Probes Coordination Protocol for Network Performance Measurement

Published in Volume XI, 2002, p. 278-286

Authors: R. HARAKALY, P. PRIMET, F. BONASSIEUX, B. GAIDIOZ

Abstract

Fast expansion of Grid technologies and of distributed computing on Internet emphasizes the importance of network performance measurement. The nature of some network measurements methods like TCP throughput or latency evaluation, are very sensitive to concurrent measurements that may devalue the results. We present Probes Coordination Protocol (PCP) which can be used to schedule different network monitoring tasks. The protocol we propose is designed to be open, customizable, robust, secure and scalable. We present results of its evaluation and of experiment periodicity measurements.

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