EIPMon: an enhanced IP network monitoring tool

Author

Skelly, Paul ; Li, Man

Author_Institution

GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

27

Abstract

We developed EIPMon (Enhanced Internet Protocol Monitor) in order to estimate delay variation and packet loss quality of service (QoS) measures in GTE´s IP Telephony Network and to characterize the traffic between its points of presence (POP) sites. The tool is passive in that it does nor generate any of its own network traffic in order to make its measurements. While the tool´s algorithms for estimating the QoS measures are generally applicable to network monitoring problems, the mel´s particular implementation specifically takes advantage of GTE´s network architecture and are based on information carried in RTP (Real-Time Protocol) headers which are present in the real-time traffic carried in the network

Keywords

Internet telephony; computer network management; computerised monitoring; quality of service; real-time systems; telecommunication computing; telephone traffic recording; transport protocols; EIPMon; Enhanced Internet Protocol Monitor; GTE network architecture; IP Telephony Network; POP sites; QoS measures; RTP headers; Real-Time Protocol; communication traffic characterization; delay variation estimation; enhanced IP network monitoring tool; network traffic measurements; packet loss service quality; points of presence; real-time traffic; Delay estimation; IP networks; Internet telephony; Loss measurement; Monitoring; Particle measurements; Protocols; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Applications, 1999. IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0197-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIAPP.1999.788013

Filename

788013