A Suite of Schemes for User-Level Network Diagnosis without Infrastructure

—It is highly desirable and important for end users, with no special privileges, identify and pinpoint faults inside the network that degrade the performance of their applications. However, existing tools are inaccurate to infer the link-level loss rates and have large diagnosis granularity (in terms of the number of hops). To address these problems, we propose a suite of user-level diagnosis approaches in two categories: (1) only need to be deployed at the source and (2) deployed at both source and destination. For the former, we propose two fragmentation aided diagnosis approaches (FAD), Algebraic FAD and Opportunistic FAD, which uses IP fragmentation to enable accurate link-level loss rate inference. For the latter category, we propose Striped Probe Analysis (SPA) which significantly improves the diagnosis granularity over those of the source-only approaches. Internet experiments are applied to evaluate each individual schemes (including an improved version of the state-ofthe-art...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Yao Zhao, Yan Chen
• Keywords: Communications, Diagnosis Approaches, Diagnosis Granularity, INFOCOM 2007, Link-level Loss Rate