The Management Infrastructure of a Network Measurement System for QoS Parameters

Author

Bikfalvi, Alexandru ; Patras, Paul ; Vancea, Cristian Mihai ; Dobrota, Virgil

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 29 2006-Oct. 1 2006

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

246

Abstract

The paper presents the designing principles of a management infrastructure for monitoring the capabilities of different network interface cards (gigabit Ethernet, Endace), both for traffic generation and capturing at reception. This evaluation is useful to asses the goodness of captured traffic analysis and QoS performance measurements, using PC based platforms. The idea was to implement the communication of the management information between an administration console and a set of distributed SNMP-based software measurement agents for GNU/Linux platforms that enable to perform QoS measurement sessions

Keywords

computer network management; local area networks; quality of service; software agents; telecommunication traffic; Endace; GNU; Linux platforms; PC based platforms; QoS parameters; distributed SNMP; gigabit Ethernet; management infrastructure; network interface cards; network measurement system; software measurement agents; traffic analysis; Information management; Linux; Network interfaces; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Software measurement; Software tools; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software in Telecommunications and Computer Networks, 2006. SoftCOM 2006. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Split

Print_ISBN

953-6114-87-9

Electronic_ISBN

953-6114-87-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFTCOM.2006.329752

Filename

4129906