Design of an application programming interface for IP network monitoring

M. Polychronakis; E. P. Markatos; K. G. Anagnostakis; Arne Øslebø

Design of an application programming interface for IP network monitoring

M. Polychronakis
, E. P. Markatos
, K. G. Anagnostakis
, Arne Øslebø

Computer Science

Stony Brook University

Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
University of Pennsylvania
UNINETT S.A

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

17 Scopus citations

Abstract

We propose a novel general-purpose network traffic Monitoring Application Programming Interface (MAPI) for network monitoring applications. Our work builds on a generalized network flew model that we argue is flexible enough to capture emerging application needs, and expressive enough to allow the system to exploit specialized monitoring hardware, where available. We describe an implementation of MAPI using the DAG 4.2 Gigabit Ethernet monitoring card and a commodity Gigabit Ethernet adapter, we present a set of experiments measuring overheads, and we demonstrate potential applications. Our experimental results suggest that MAPI has more expressive power than competing approaches, while at the same time is able to achieve significant performance improvements.

Original language	English
Pages	483-496
Number of pages	14
State	Published - 2004
Event	2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium: Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services, NOMS 2004 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 1 2004 → Apr 1 2004

Conference

Conference	2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium: Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services, NOMS 2004
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	04/1/04 → 04/1/04

Keywords

Accounting
MAPI
Network flow
Network monitoring

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Design of an application programming interface for IP network monitoring. / Polychronakis, M.; Markatos, E. P.; Anagnostakis, K. G. et al.
2004. 483-496 Paper presented at 2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium: Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services, NOMS 2004, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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