Vasco Castro, Paulo Carvalho, Solange Rito Lima
Centro ALGORITMI
Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
P-4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Tel.: +351 253 604432
Fax.: +351 253 604471
E-mail: pmc at di.uminho.pt
This paper presents ongoing work toward the definition of a new
network monitoring model which resorts to a cooperative
interaction among measurement entities to monitor the quality of
network services. Exploring (i) the definition of representative
measurement points to form a network monitoring overlay; (ii) the
removal of measurement redundancy through composition of metrics; and
(iii) a simple active measurement methodology, the proposed model aims
to contribute to a scalable, robust and reliable end-to-end monitoring.
Besides the model proposal, a JAVA prototype was implemented to test
the conceptual model and its design goals.