Practical issues with using network tomography for fault diagnosis
Yiyi Huang, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2008
This paper investigates the practical issues in applying network tomography to monitor failures. We outline an approach for selecting paths to monitor, detecting and confirming the existence of a failure, correlating multiple independent observations into a single failure event, and applying existing binary networking tomography algorithms to identify failures. We evaluate the ability of network tomography algorithms to correctly detect and identify failures in a controlled environment on the VINI testbed.