Title
Quantile sampling for practical delay monitoring in Internet backbone networks
Abstract
Point-to-point delay is an important network performance measure as it captures service degradations caused by various events. We study how to measure and report delay in a concise and meaningful way for an ISP, and how to monitor it efficiently. We analyze various measurement intervals and potential metric definitions. We find that reporting high quantiles (between 0.95 and 0.99) every 10-30min as the most effective way to summarize the delay in an ISP. We then propose an active probing scheme to estimate a high quantile with bounded error. We show that only a small number of probes are sufficient to provide an accurate estimate. We validate the proposed delay monitoring technique on real data collected on the Sprint IP backbone network. To make our work complete, we lastly compare the overhead of our active probing technique with a passive sampling scheme and show that for delay measurement, active probing is more practical.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.comnet.2006.11.023
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Delay,Performance monitoring,Active probing
Journal
51
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1389-1286
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.70
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baek-Young Choi136759.92
Sue B. Moon26806485.52
Rene Cruz31711256.63
Zhi-Li Zhang44063317.10
Christophe Diot57831590.69