TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing router responsiveness to active measurement probes
AU - Gunes, Mehmet H.
AU - Sarac, Kamil
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Active measurements
KW - Internet measurement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67649974480&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=67649974480&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00975-4_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00975-4_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67649974480
SN - 9783642009747
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 23
EP - 32
BT - Passive and Active Network Measurement - 10th International Conference, PAM 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, PAM 2009
Y2 - 1 April 2009 through 3 April 2009
ER -