TY - JOUR
T1 - A measurement study on overhead distribution of value-added internet services
AU - Gunes, Mehmet H.
AU - Bilir, Sevcan
AU - Sarac, Kamil
AU - Korkmaz, Turgay
PY - 2007/10/10
Y1 - 2007/10/10
N2 - During the last two decades, several value-added services (e.g., IP multicast, IP traceback, etc.) have been proposed to extend the functional capabilities of the Internet. Due to the increasing role of these services, there is a need to better understand their impact on the network. In this paper, we present an experimental study on the intersection characteristics of end-to-end Internet paths and trees. We analyze these characteristics to understand the scale and the distribution of "state overhead" that is incurred on the routers by various value-added network services. For the reliability of our analysis, a representative, end-to-end router-level Internet map is essential. Although several maps are available, they are at best insufficient for our analysis. Therefore, in the first part of our work, we exert a measurement study and present an alternative approach to obtain an end-to-end router-level map conforming to our constraints. In the second part, we conduct various experiments using our map and shed some light on the scale and distribution of the state overhead of value-added Internet services in both unicast and multicast environments.
AB - During the last two decades, several value-added services (e.g., IP multicast, IP traceback, etc.) have been proposed to extend the functional capabilities of the Internet. Due to the increasing role of these services, there is a need to better understand their impact on the network. In this paper, we present an experimental study on the intersection characteristics of end-to-end Internet paths and trees. We analyze these characteristics to understand the scale and the distribution of "state overhead" that is incurred on the routers by various value-added network services. For the reliability of our analysis, a representative, end-to-end router-level Internet map is essential. Although several maps are available, they are at best insufficient for our analysis. Therefore, in the first part of our work, we exert a measurement study and present an alternative approach to obtain an end-to-end router-level map conforming to our constraints. In the second part, we conduct various experiments using our map and shed some light on the scale and distribution of the state overhead of value-added Internet services in both unicast and multicast environments.
KW - Load distribution
KW - Multicast state elimination
KW - Router-level maps
KW - State overhead
KW - Topology mapping
KW - Value-added Internet services
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U2 - 10.1016/j.comnet.2007.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.comnet.2007.05.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547173601
SN - 1389-1286
VL - 51
SP - 4153
EP - 4173
JO - Computer Networks
JF - Computer Networks
IS - 14
ER -