Passive and Active Network Measurement: 5th International Workshop, PAM 2004, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, April 19-20, 2004. Proceedings

M. Izal, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Ernst W. Biersack, P. A. Felber, A. Al Hamra (auth.), Chadi Barakat, Ian Pratt (eds.)3540214925, 9783540214922, 9783540246688

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, PAM 2004, held in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France in April 2004.

The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on P2P and overlay, network optimization, traffic analysis, protocol and system measurement, tools, miscellaneous, network measurement, and BGP and routing.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Dissecting BitTorrent: Five Months in a Torrent’s Lifetime….Pages 1-11
A Measurement-Based Traffic Profile of the eDonkey Filesharing Service….Pages 12-21
Bootstrapping in Gnutella: A Measurement Study….Pages 22-32
Testing the Scalability of Overlay Routing Infrastructures….Pages 33-42
Toward a Measurement-Based Geographic Location Service….Pages 43-52
An Incremental Super-Linear Preferential Internet Topology Model….Pages 53-62
Geometric Exploration of the Landmark Selection Problem….Pages 63-72
The Interdomain Connectivity of PlanetLab Nodes….Pages 73-82
Searching for Self-Similarity in GPRS….Pages 83-92
The Effect of Flow Capacities on the Burstiness of Aggregated Traffic….Pages 93-102
Micro-Time-Scale Network Measurements and Harmonic Effects….Pages 103-112
Their Share: Diversity and Disparity in IP Traffic….Pages 113-125
Origins of Microcongestion in an Access Router….Pages 126-136
Performance Measurement and Analysis of H.323 Traffic….Pages 137-146
Measurements and Laboratory Simulations of the Upper DNS Hierarchy….Pages 147-157
A Robust Classifier for Passive TCP/IP Fingerprinting….Pages 158-167
NETI@home: A Distributed Approach to Collecting End-to-End Network Performance Measurements….Pages 168-174
Comparative Analysis of Active Bandwidth Estimation Tools….Pages 175-184
Active Measurement for Multiple Link Failures Diagnosis in IP Networks….Pages 185-194
Structured Errors in Optical Gigabit Ethernet Packets….Pages 195-204
Flow Clustering Using Machine Learning Techniques….Pages 205-214
Using Data Stream Management Systems for Traffic Analysis – A Case Study –….Pages 215-226
Inferring Queue Sizes in Access Networks by Active Measurement….Pages 227-236
Reordering of IP Packets in Internet….Pages 237-246
Effects of Interrupt Coalescence on Network Measurements….Pages 247-256
Measurement Approaches to Evaluate Performance Optimizations for Wide-Area Wireless Networks….Pages 257-266
Measuring BGP Pass-Through Times….Pages 267-277
Impact of BGP Dynamics on Router CPU Utilization….Pages 278-288
Correlating Internet Performance Changes and Route Changes to Assist in Trouble-Shooting from an End-User Perspective….Pages 289-297
Back Matter….Pages –