Summary of Useful Papers

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Network Weather Service (NWS)
"The Network Weather Service: A Distributed Resource Performance Forecasting Service for Metacomputing" (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, Neil Spring, and Jim Hayes, Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems,Volume 15, Numbers 5-6, pp. 757-768, October, 1999.
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"Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance Using the Network Weather Service" (compressed postscript) Rich Wolski, in Journal of Cluster Computing, Volume 1, pp. 119-132, January, 1998.
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"Synchronizing Network Probes to avoid Measurement Intrusiveness with the Network Weather Service" (PDF), B. Gaidioz, R. Wolski, and B. Tourancheau, Proceedings of 9th IEEE High-performance Distributed Computing Conference, August, 2000, pp. 147-154. details
OCXMON(CoralReef)
"The Architecture of Coral Reef: An Internet Traffic Monitoring Software Suite", Ken Keys, David Moore, Ryan Koga, Edouard Lagache, Michael Tesch, and k claffy [PDF] details
"CoralReef software suite as a tool for system and network administrators", David Moore, Ken Keys, Ryan Koga, Edouard Lagache and kc Claffy. [PDF] details
Measurement Architecture
"Measuring the Immeasurable: Global Internet Measurement Infrastructure", Margaret Murray and kc claffy [PDF] details

"A System for Flexible Network Performance Measurement",Andrew K. ADAMS and Matthew MATHIS [HTML]

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"Passively Monitoring Networks at Gigabit Speeds Using Commodity Hardware and Open Source Software", Luca Deri [PDF]

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McGregor, A., H-W.Braun, and J. Brown. "The NLANR Network Analysis Infrastructure". IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38 (5): pp. 122-128, May 2000. [PDF] details
Brown, J., A. McGregor, and H-W. Braun. "Network performance visualization: insight through animation". Proceedings PAM2000 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, Hamilton, New Zealand, pp. 33-41, Apr. 2000. [PDF]
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"Integrating Active Methods and Flow Meters - an implementation using NeTraMet", Thomas Lindh, Nevil Brownlee [PDF]
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Web100
"Developing a Web100 Based Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT)", Richard Carlson [PDF] details