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September/October 2004 (Vol. 8, No. 5)
pp. 50-56
Comparing Probe- and Router-Based Packet-Loss Measurement
Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Joel Sommers, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Empirical analysis of Internet traffic characteristics should not be biased by the measurement methodology used to gather data. This article compares probe- (active) and router-based (passive) methods for measuring packet loss both in the laboratory and in a wide-area network. The laboratory case study demonstrates the accuracy of passive Simple Network Measurement Protocol (SNMP) measurements at low loss rates; the wide-area experiments show that active-probe loss-rate measurements don't correlate with those measured by SNMP from routers in a live network. This case study's findings also reveal that common methods for active probing for packet loss suffer from high variance and from the effects of end-host interface loss.
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Index Terms- Internet, packet loss, probe, router
Citation:
Paul Barford, Joel Sommers,
"Comparing Probe- and Router-Based Packet-Loss Measurement,"
IEEE Internet Computing,
vol. 8,
no. 5,
pp. 50-56,
Sept/Oct,
2004
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