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Edge-to-Edge Achieved Transfer Throughput Inference Using Link Utilization Counts

Authors:
Demetris Antoniades
Constantine Dovrolis

Keywords: throughput inference; edge-to-edge; SNMP; network performance monitoring

Abstract:
We propose a methodology to infer edge-to-edge achieved transfer throughput using link utilization counts. Our method treats variations in the link utilization time-series as possible transfer starting or ending events. Iteratively following these variations to the neighboring routers, we then identify the path the transfer traversed through the monitored network. Our evaluation shows that this method can identify events larger than 3 Mbit/sec and longer than 2 minutes in duration with more than 95% recall. Additionally, we show that event detection is strongly correlated with the traffic in the busiest router in the path. We discuss how a number of applications such as throughput prediction and DDoS attack source detection can use the inferred information.

Pages: 15 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: June 22, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-349-0

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from June 22, 2014 to June 26, 2014