Internet performance monitoring

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1592-1603

  Chen, Thomas M ^a,b   Hu, Lucia ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet performance; Network monitoring; Traffic measurement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONDITION MONITORING; INFORMATION SERVICES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

INTERNET PERFORMANCE MONITORING; NETWORK MONITORING; PERFORMANCE MONITORING PROJECTS; PROTOCOL LAYER; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT;

INTERNET;

EID: 5444271225     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2002.802006     Document Type: Article

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