NLANR Measurement and Network Analysis Group Published Papers

2001-2005

Alcock, S., A.J. McGregor, and R. Nelson. Using Simple Per-Hop Capacity Metrics to Discover Link Layer Network Topology. Proceedings of PAM2005, the 6th annual Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, Boston, MA, Mar. 31-Apr. 01, 2005. [PDF]

Cho,K., M. Luckie, and B. Huffaker. Identifying IPv6 Network Problems in the DualStack World. Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Network Troubleshooting Workshop (NetTs), Portland, OR, Aug 30-Sep 3.

Curtis, J. and A.J. McGregor. Review of Bandwidth Estimation Techniques. Proceedings of the New Zealand Computer Science Research Students' Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Vol 8 (3), Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PS-GZ] [HTML]

Gannis, M. and R. Ritke. NLANR/MNA Builds an International Infrastructure for Network Research. [White Paper] When first released SDSC made this the highlighted news article of their front page and is now available in the news section at: [HTML] **abstracts were submitted to PAM2004**

Gao, J., V.P. Roychowdhury, R. Ritke, and I. Rubin. IP Packet Level vBNS Traffic Analysis and Modeling. Proceedings of SPECTS 2001, Orlando, Florida, pp. 178-185, Jul. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Gao, J. and R. Ritke. Long-Range-Dependence and Multifractal modeling of vBNS Traffic. Proceedings of the 2001 Applied Telecommunications Symposium (ATS'01), Seattle, Washington, pp. 167-173, Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Hansen, T., P. Yalamanchili, H-W. Braun. Wireless Measurement and Analysis on HPWREN. [Poster] Proceedings PAM2002 Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 222-229, Mar. 2002. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Lee, J., J. Gao, R. Ritke, and A.J. McGregor. Characterization of end-to-end packet dynamics in the Internet. Submitted to Sigmetrics 2004. Another version of this paper will be submitted to the Special issue of Performance Evaluation.

Luckie, M.J. and A. J. McGregor. IPMP: IP Measurement Protocol. Proceedings PAM2002 Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 168-176, Mar. 2002. Authors' version: [PDF]

Luckie, M. and A.J. McGregor. User Level Path Diagnosis with IPMP. Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Network Troubleshooting Workshop (NetTs), Portland, OR, Aug 30-Sep 3.

Luckie, M.J. and T. McGregor. Segmentation of Internet paths for capacity estimation. Proceedings of the ISMA BEst Workshop, San Diego, California, Dec. 2003.

Luckie, M.J. and A.J. McGregor, and H-W. Braun. Towards Improving Packet Probing Techniques. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, San Francisco, California, pp. 145-151, Nov. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF]

McGregor, A., M. Hall, P. Lorier, and J. Brunskill. Flow Clustering Using Machine Learning Techniques. Proceedings PAM2004 Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, LNCS, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, pp. 205-215, Apr. 2004.

McGregor, A.J. and H-W. Braun. Automated Event Detection for Active Measurement Systems. PAM2001 Workshop Proceedings, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 23-32, Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] Also available on the PAM2001 Web site: [Session 1 - 10:15]

McGregor, A.J., M.W. Pearson, and J.C. Cleary. Improving the performance of HTTP over high bandwidth-delay product circuits. Proceedings of the Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS) '01, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 97-102, Jan. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF]

McGregor, A.J. NLANR's Active Measurement Program: Network Knowledge Leads to Practical Payoffs. SDSC/NPACI Online biweekly newsletter, Vol. 7 (3), February 5, 2003. [HTML]

McGregor A.J. Quality in measurement: beyond the deployment barrier. [Keynote address] Proceedings of SAINT-2002, the 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Nara City, Nara, Japan, 28 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2002.

McGregor A.J. M.W. Pearson, and D.H.T. Lawson. Validation of the WAND Simulator Through Comparison with Laboratory Tests. Proceedings PAM2002 Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 76-83, Mar. 2002.

Micheel, J. lambdaMON – A Passive Monitoring Facility for DWDM Optical Networks. Proceedings of PAM2005, the 6th annual Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, Boston, MA, Mar. 31-Apr. 01, 2005. [PDF]

Micheel, J. Writing Applications for Real-time Network Monitoring. Proceedings of the AUUG 2003 Conference: Open Standards, Open Source, Open Computing, Sydney, Australia, Aug.-Sep. 2003.

Micheel, J., I. Graham, and N. Brownlee. The Auckland data set: an access link observed. Proceedings of the 14th ITC Specialists Seminar on Access Networks and Systems, Barcelona/Gerona, Catalonia, Spain, p. 19, Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF]

Micheel, J., H-W. Braun, and I. Graham. Storage and bandwidth requirements for passive Internet header traces. Proceedings of the NRDM Workshop, Santa Barbara, California, May 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] Presentation slides: [HTML]

Micheel, J., S. Donnelly, and I. Graham. Precision Timestamping for Network Packets. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, San Francisco, California, p. 273, Nov. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF]

Mochalski, K., J. Micheel, and S. Donnelly. Packet Delay and Loss at the Auckland Internet Access Path. Proceedings PAM2002 Passive & Active Measurement Workshop, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 46-55, Mar. 2002. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Mochalski, K. and J. Micheel. A Real-Time Packet Burst Metric. Proceedings TERENA Networking Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 2004.

Pearson, M.W. and A.J. McGregor. Sensitivity Analysis of Event Driven Simulation Results. PAM2001 Workshop Proceedings, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 132-144, Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] Also available on the PAM2001 Web site: [Session 7 - 14:00]

Ritke, R., X. Hong, and M. Gerla. Contradictory Relationship between Hurst parameter and Queueing Performance (extended version). Telecommunication Systems, Vol 16 (1,2): pp. 159-175, Feb. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Ryu, Bo, D. Cheney, and H-W. Braun. Internet Flow Characterization: Adaptive Timeout Strategy and Statistical Modeling. PAM2001 Workshop Proceedings, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 94-105, Apr. 2001. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] Also available on the PAM2001 Web site: [Session 5 - 10:00]

1998-2000

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. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] High resolution: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Curtis, J., J. Cleary, A. McGregor, and M. Pearson. Measurement of voice over IP traffic. Proceedings PAM2000 Passive and Active Measurement Workshop, Hamilton, New Zealand, pp. 43-59, Apr. 2000. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Fang, W. and L. Peterson. Inter-AS traffic patterns and their implications. Proceedings of Global Internet 99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1999. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ]

Gannis, M. and T. Hansen (eds.). Proceedings of the Challenges and Opportunities for Measurement and Analysis in a High Performance Computing Environment Workshop, San Diego, California, Jul. 1999. [HTML]

Gannis, M. and T. Hansen (eds.). Proceedings of the Measurement and Analysis Collaborations Workshop, San Diego, California, Jun. 1999. [HTML]

Hansen, T., J. Otero, A. McGregor, and H-W. Braun. Active measurement data analysis techniques. Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, p. 105, Jun. 2000. Authors' version: [PDF - 1861KB] [PS-GZ - 3810KB] To choose only the case studies, or just the text: [options]

McGregor A. and H-W. Braun (Gannis, M.). Active Measures to Maintain a Healthy Network. enVision, Vol. 16 (3): p. 11, Oct. 2000. enVision: [HTML]

McGregor, A. and H-W. Braun. Balancing cost and utility in active monitoring: The AMP example. Proceedings of The Global Internet Summit (INET2000), Japan, Jul. 2000. Authors' version: [HTML]

McGregor, A., M.W. Pearson, and J. Cleary. The Effect of Multiplexing Http Connections over Asymmetric High Bandwidth-delay Product Circuits. Proceedings of SPIE Photonics East 1998: Routing in the Internet - New Concepts, pp. 398-401, Nov. 1998. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] [HTML]

McGregor, A., H-W.Braun, and J. Brown. The NLANR Network Analysis Infrastructure. IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38 (5): pp. 122-128, May 2000. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] [HTML]

Pearson, M., A. McGregor, and J. Cleary. Reducing US/NZ Web page latencies. Network99, pp. 54-63, Jan. 1999. Authors' version: [PDF] [PS-GZ] [HTML]

Pearson, M., and A. McGregor. A simulation study of network architectures to support http traffic on symmetric high-bandwidth delay circuits. Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Web Conference, 1999. Authors' version: [HTML]

Ritke, R. How to Fill Your Internet Toolbox. Information Week Magazine, pp. 84-87, May 29 2000. Authors' version: [PDF]

Ritke, R. An internet toolbox. Dr. Dobb's Journal, pp.84-89, Jun. 2000. Authors' version: [PDF]

Viken, B. A. Passive Measurements of Internet Traffic from SCinet '98. Proceedings of the Norsk Informatikkonferanse, Trondheim, Norway, Nov. 1999.

Viken, B. A. Passive Monitoring of Internet Traffic at Supercomputing '98. Proceedings of EUNICE '99, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 1999. Authors' version: [PDF]