Programmable Remote Traffic Monitoring Method Using Active Network Approach
Tōru Hasegawa, Shigehiro Ano, Koji Nakao, Fumito Kubota · Lecture notes in computer science · 2001
As the Internet has become an infrastructure for the global communication, a network failure and a quality degradation have become a serious problem. In order to solve the problem, a network monitoring system which monitors the traffic of Internet in real time is strongly desired. Traffic monitors which collect the statistics from captured packets play a key roll in the system; however, they are not flexible enough for being used in the rapidly changing Internet. The traditional approach such that a new traffic monitor is developed for a new requirement results in a long turn around time of the development. Therefore, we have proposed a flexible network monitoring system which consists of programmable traffic monitors. Traffic monitors are made programmable by introducing active network techniques; therefore, we call the network monitoring system as the active monitor network. This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of the active monitor network. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.