@article {Wei2014, title = {Rating Network Paths for Locality-Aware Overlay Construction and Routing}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking}, volume = {23}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, chapter = {1661}, abstract = {

This paper investigates the rating of network paths,\ i.e. acquiring quantized measures of path properties such as\ round-trip time and available bandwidth. Comparing to finegrained\ measurements, coarse-grained ratings are appealing in\ that they are not only informative but also cheap to obtain.

Motivated by this insight, we firstly address the scalable\ acquisition of path ratings by statistical inference. By observing\ similarities to recommender systems, we examine the applicability\ of solutions to recommender system and show that our\ inference problem can be solved by a class of matrix factorization\ techniques. A technical contribution is an active and progressive\ inference framework that not only improves the accuracy by\ selectively measuring more informative paths but also speeds\ up the convergence for available bandwidth by incorporating its\ measurement methodology.

Then, we investigate the usability of rating-based network\ measurement and inference in applications. A case study is\ performed on whether locality awareness can be achieved for\ overlay networks of Pastry and BitTorrent using inferred ratings.

We show that such coarse-grained knowledge can improve the\ performance of peer selection and that finer granularities do not\ always lead to larger improvements.

}, keywords = {matrix factorization, network inference, rating-based network measurement, recommender system}, author = {Du, Wei and Liao, Yongjun and Tao, Narisu and Geurts, Pierre and Fu, Xiaoming and Leduc, Guy} } @inproceedings {Fia2015a, title = {RCATool - A Framework for Detecting and Diagnosing Anomalies in Cellular Networks}, booktitle = {27th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)}, year = {2015}, author = {Pierdomenico Fiadino and Alessandro D{\textquoteright}Alconzo and Mirko Schiavone and Pedro Casas} } @inproceedings {D.2015, title = {Robust cooperative monitoring problem}, booktitle = {Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), 2015 7th International Workshop on}, year = {2015}, month = {Oct}, keywords = {box+ellipsoidal perturbation set, box+polyhedral perturbation set, cooperative communication, integer programming, linear programming, MILP, Minimization, mixed-integer linear program, Monitoring, Optimization, passive monitoring point configuration, passive monitoring point placement, robust cooperative monitoring problem, Robustness, Routing, telecommunication traffic, time-varying traffic flow monitoring, Topology, Uncertainty}, doi = {10.1109/RNDM.2015.7325228}, author = {Papadimitriou, D. and Fortz, B.} } @inproceedings {D.P2015, title = {Robust Cooperative Monitoring Problem}, booktitle = {7th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) 2015}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, publisher = {IEEE XPlore}, organization = {IEEE XPlore}, address = {Munich, Germany}, author = {Dimitri Papadimitriou and Bernard Fortz} } @inproceedings {7325228, title = {Robust cooperative monitoring problem}, booktitle = {Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM), 2015 7th International Workshop on}, year = {2015}, month = {10/2015}, keywords = {box+ellipsoidal perturbation set, box+polyhedral perturbation set, cooperative communication, integer programming, linear programming, MILP, Minimization, mixed-integer linear program, Monitoring, Optimization, passive monitoring point configuration, passive monitoring point placement, robust cooperative monitoring problem, Robustness, Routing, telecommunication traffic, time-varying traffic flow monitoring, Topology, Uncertainty}, doi = {10.1109/RNDM.2015.7325228}, author = {Dimitri Papadimitriou and Bernard Fortz} } @inproceedings {Dus2014, title = {Reactive Logic in Software-Defined Networking: Measuring Flow-Table Requirements}, booktitle = {5th International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Characterization (TRAC)}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, address = {Nicosia, Cyprus}, author = {Maurizio Dusi and Roberto Bifulco and Francesco Gringoli and Fabian Schneider} } @article {rfc7125, title = {Revision of the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element (RFC 7125)}, year = {2014}, month = {02/2014}, abstract = {
This document revises the tcpControlBits IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Element as originally defined in RFC 5102 to reflect changes to the TCP Flags header field since RFC 793.
}, url = {http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7125.txt}, author = {B. Trammell and P. Aitken} } @inproceedings {2014a, title = {Revisiting size-based scheduling with estimated job sizes}, year = {2014} } @inproceedings {EURECOM+4268, title = {Revisiting size-based scheduling with estimated job sizes}, booktitle = {{MASCOTS} 2014, {IEEE} 22nd {I}nternational {S}ymposium on {M}odeling analysis and simulation of computer and telecommunication systems, {S}eptember 9-11, 2014, {P}aris, {F}rance / {A}lso published on {A}r{X}iv}, year = {2014}, month = {03}, address = {{P}aris, {FRANCE}}, url = {http://www.eurecom.fr/publication/4268}, author = {Dell{\textquoteright}Amico, Matteo and Carra, Damiano and Pastorelli, Mario and Michiardi, Pietro} } @inproceedings {Chi2013c, title = {Remotely Gauging Upstream Bufferbloat Delays}, booktitle = {Passive and Active Measurement (PAM)}, year = {2013}, abstract = { {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Bufferbloat{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} is the growth in buffer size that has led Internet delays to occasionally exceed the light propagation delay from the Earth to the Moon. Manufacturers have built in large buffers to prevent losses on Wi-Fi, cable and ADSL links. But the combination of some links{\textquoteright} limited bandwidth with TCP{\textquoteright}s tendency to saturate that bandwidth results in excessive queuing delays. In response, new congestion control protocols such as BitTorrent{\textquoteright}s uTP/LEDBAT aim at explicitly limiting the delay that they add over the bottleneck link. This work proposes and validate a methodology to monitor the upstream queuing delay experienced by remote hosts, both those using LEDBAT, through LEDBAT{\textquoteright}s native one-way delay measurements, and those using TCP (via the Time-stamp Option). }, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-36516-4_25}, url = {http://www.enst.fr/~drossi/paper/rossi13pam.pdf}, author = {C. Chirichella and D Rossi and C. Testa and T. Friedman and A. Pescape} } @inproceedings {Det2013, title = {Revealing Middlebox Interference with Tracebox}, booktitle = {ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)}, year = {2013}, month = {10/2013}, abstract = {

Middleboxes such as firewalls, NAT, proxies, or Deep Pack-et Inspection play an\ increasingly important role in various types of IP networks, including\ enterprise and cellular networks. Recent studies have shed the light on their\ impact on real traffic and the complexity of managing them. Network operators\ and researchers have few tools to understand the impact of those boxes on any
path. In this paper, we propose tracebox, an extension to the widely used\ traceroute tool, that is capable of detecting various types of middlebox\ interference over almost any path. \ tracebox sends IP packets containing TCP\ segments with different TTL values and analyses the packet encapsulated in the\ returned ICMP messages. Further, as recent routers quote, in the ICMP message,\ the entire IP packet that they received, tracebox is able to detect any\ modification performed by upstream middleboxes. In addition, tracebox can often\ pinpoint the network hop where the middlebox interference occurs. We evaluate\ tracebox with measurements performed on PlanetLab nodes. Our analysis reveals\ various types of middleboxes that were not expected on such an experimental\ testbed supposed to be connected to the Internet without any restriction.

}, keywords = {middlebox, network discovery, tracebox}, doi = {10.1145/2504730.2504757}, author = {Gregory Detal and Benjamin Hesmans and Olivier Bonaventure and Yves Vanaubel and Benoit Donnet} } @inproceedings {Val2013, title = {RILAnalyzer: a Comprehensive 3G Monitor on Your Phone}, booktitle = {Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)}, year = {2013}, doi = {10.1145/2504730.2504764}, author = {Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and A. Aucinas and M. Almeida and Yan Grunenberger and Konstantina Papagiannaki and Jon Crowcroft} }