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Link failures are common in IP networks. In this paper, we develop a technique for diagnosing link failures in Service Provider or Enterprise IP networks using active measurement.The technique attempts to minimize both the monitoring infrastructure costs as well as the additional traffic due to probe messages. Both the station selection problem and the probe message assignment problem are NP-hard, and we propose approximation algorithms for these problems. We also apply our algorithms to existing ISP networks using topologies inferred by the Rocketfuel tool. The results can be used by ISP operators to trade off between accuracy of diagnosis and monitoring costs.
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 60273070 and 60403031, the National High-Technology Program of China (863) under grant 2005AA121560, the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 05JJ30116.
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Li, W., Zhang, D., Yang, J., Xie, G. (2005). An Active Measurement Approach for Link Faults Monitoring in ISP Networks. In: Zhuge, H., Fox, G.C. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2005. GCC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590354_128
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