DocumentCode :
415796
Title :
Design of an application programming interface for IP network monitoring
Author :
Polychronakis, M. ; Markatos, Evangelos P. ; Anagnostakis, K.G. ; Øslebø, Arne
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Found. for Res. & Technol. - Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
Volume :
1
fYear :
2004
fDate :
23-23 April 2004
Firstpage :
483
Abstract :
We propose a novel general-purpose network traffic monitoring application programming interface (MAPI) for network monitoring applications. Our work builds on a generalized network flow model that we argue is flexible enough to capture emerging application needs, and expressive enough to allow the system to exploit specialized monitoring hardware, where available. We describe an implementation of MAPI using the DAG 4.2 Gigabit Ethernet monitoring card and a commodity Gigabit Ethernet adapter, we present a set of experiments measuring overheads, and we demonstrate potential applications. Our experimental results suggest that MAPI has more expressive power than competing approaches, while at the same time is able to achieve significant performance improvements.
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; computer network management; local area networks; monitoring; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; 4.2 Gbit/s; DAG 4.2 Gigabit Ethernet monitoring card; Gigabit Ethernet adapter; IP network monitoring; MAPI; generalized network flow model; monitoring application programming interface; performance; traffic monitoring; Computational Intelligence Society; Computer architecture; Computerized monitoring; Ethernet networks; Hardware; IP networks; Robustness; Software prototyping; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2004. NOMS 2004. IEEE/IFIP
Conference_Location :
Seoul, South Korea
ISSN :
1542-1201
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8230-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NOMS.2004.1317735
Filename :
1317735
Link To Document :
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