MINER - A measurement infrastructure for network research
Christof Brandauer, Thomas Fichtel · 2009
Network measurements often require the coordinated use of multiple tools on distributed vantage points. Without any form of supporting command and control system, the management and execution of a systematic measurement study is a tedious mission. In this paper we present MINER which seeks to simplify this task. MINER is a programmable measurement infrastructure that integrates existing measurement tools and provides its users higher-level services on top of them. It enables users to define measurement activities, schedule executions and retrieve their results. The services are accessible via a tool-agnostic and unified programming interface with which measurement applications can be developed. We discuss MINER's requirements and design considerations and present a modular implementation that can be flexibly extended through plugins. Finally, we report on usage scenarios and directions for future work.