Performance monitoring

• Introduction
• Documents
• Mailing list
• Activities list
• Metric definitions
• Presentations
• Performance Monitoring Meetings - Minutes and Presentations
• Related links

For this purpose, the group will build a "domain central tool" to retrieve domain measurements and exchange these collected measurements with other domains when requested. Recommendations on monitoring tools will also be made.
The architecture will be tested during a trial phase. During this phase, some measurement boxes and the "domain central tool" will be installed on at least three adjacent domains. The metrics monitored during the trial are the One-Way Delay (OWD), the Instantaneous Packet Delay Variation (IPDV), the One-Way Packet Loss (OWPL) and the packet re-ordering. The main focus will be on these metrics, but the architecture must be build in such a way that additional metrics can be added.

Later on, the group will focuse on the integration of the other metrics and the development of a tool to detect and diagnose where the problems are located. Those tools should be tailored for network manager (independently of where they are) and if possible to the end-users.

Presentations

• 12th TF-NGN meeting - general presentation about the perfmonit project - 15th-16th of September 2003 Cambridge
  General presentation of the goals, description of work on the domain tool architecture and timetable related to other project works.
• 12th TF-NGN meeting - presentation about the path finder functionality - 15th-16th of September 2003 Cambridge
  Explanation about what should provide the path finder module (module in charge of mapping a IP address to one Measurement Points).
• 57th IETF Meeting - ISPMON BOF presentation - July 13-18, 2003, Vienna
  General presentation about the TF-NGN multi-domain monitoring activity and its challenges.
• UCL performance monitoring workshop presentation - May 15, 2003, London
  General presentation about the TF-NGN multi-domain monitoring activity and its challenges.

• Minutes of the second meeting in Rome (6 February 2003)
  During this meeting, the metrics were discussed as well as the general design of the tools.

• Minutes of the first meeting in Amsterdam (17 December 2002)
  During this meeting, the various monitoring experiences and expectations concerning the activity were shared.

  Amsterdam meeting presentations:

  • Victor Reijs' presentation (ppt) defining the measurement types and specification about the infrastructure. It also contains information about NIMI, the monitoring systems currently used by HEANET and few slides about GPS/NTP.
  • Steve Williams' presentation (ppt) shows what the Welsh Video Network is monitoring with IPM, some thought about databases and the frequency of monitoring
  • Olav Kvittem's presentation (pdf) providing information about UNINETT monitoring infrastructure (delay, routers, multicast and passive measurements).
  • Nicolas Simar's presentation (ppt) about the group objectives, the DANTE metric interests and a picture describing how the measurement should be done.