Inline bandwidth measurements: Implementation difficulties and their solutions

Fifth IEEE/IFIP Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, E2EMON'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tsugawa, Tomoaki ^a   Man, Cao Le Thanh ^a   Hasegawa, Go ^a   Murata, Masayuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Available bandwidth; Clock resolution; Implementation; Inline network measurement; Interrupt Coalescence (IC); Transmission control protocol (TCP)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; CLOCK RESOLUTION; INLINE NETWORK MEASUREMENT; INTERRUPT COALESCENCE (IC); TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 34748889042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/E2EMON.2007.375314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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