Analyzing router responsiveness to active measurement probes

Mehmet H. Gunes, Kamil Sarac

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    Abstract

    Active probing has increasingly been used to collect information about the topological and functional characteristics of the Internet. Given the need for active probing and the lack of a widely accepted mechanism to minimize the overhead of such probes, the traffic and processing overhead introduced on the routers are believed to become an important issue for network operators. In this paper, we conduct an experimental study to understand the responsiveness of routers to active probing both from a historical perspective and current practices. One main finding is that network operators are increasingly configuring their devices not to respond to active direct probes. In addition, ICMP based probes seem to elicit most responses and UDP based probes elicit the least.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPassive and Active Network Measurement - 10th International Conference, PAM 2009, Proceedings
    Pages23-32
    Number of pages10
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2009
    Event10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, PAM 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 1 Apr 20093 Apr 2009

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume5448
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, PAM 2009
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CitySeoul
    Period1/04/093/04/09

    Keywords

    • Active measurements
    • Internet measurement

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