Synchronizing Network Probes to Avoid Measurement Intrusiveness with the Network Weather Service

In this paper we present a scalable protocol for conducting periodic probes of network performance in a way that minimizes collisions between separate probes. The goal of the protocol is to enable active performance monitoring of large-scale distributed computational systems and networks. We use the protocol to generate time series of measurement data that are then exposed to numerical forecasting models when a prediction of network performance is required. We present the protocol and demonstrate its effectiveness using the Network Weather Service — a tool for dynamically predicting network, CPU, memory, and storage performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HPDC
• Authors: Richard Wolski, Benjamin Gaidioz, Bernard Tourancheau
• Keywords: Active Performance Monitoring, Distributed And Parallel Computing, HPDC 2000, Network Performance, Scalable Protocol