UNM: an architecture of the universal policy-based network measurement system

The concept of universal network measurement environment (UNME) is proposed, which includes three entities, i.e., the name server, the monitoring center and the probe. The architecture that the entities follow is called the universal network measurement (UNM), which consists of three layers. The key technologies such as component management protocol, network measurement policy protocol and the network measurement cooperative layer are explored and the construction of the probe and the method how to change measurement tools into the UNM probes are introduced. Finally, a real network monitoring & measurement system following UNM is illustrated, and several network measurement applications built on it are introduced.