1 QoS monitoring activities TF-STREAM November 127 th, 2000 Victor Reijs
2 QoS monitoring activities Outline Megaconference II QoS testing… Application behavior on impaired networks... TERENA/DANTE activities...
3 QoS monitoring activities Megaconference II QoS testing Frustration how to predict the QoS of applications –NLM HEAnet MPEG-2 tests Participants... Usual tools… Application-layer network testing...
4 QoS monitoring activities Participants NetIQ Cooperation VidiNet OARnet and ACCORD Internet2 SURFnet and University of Utrecht HEAnet
5 QoS monitoring activities Usual tools ping, traceroute, PingPlotter, Iperf, CV2SIM, NetTach, etc. end-to-end testing, not edge to edge testing RIPE TTM (and Surveyor/Tombstone) edge-to-edge testing, but scarce resource
6 QoS monitoring activities Application-layer network testing Chariot, Qcheck and Endpoints Endpoints in the path (such as peering points) Scripts to simulate traffic between any two Endpoints Central system to gather information
7 QoS monitoring activities General QoS grid topology
8 QoS monitoring activities Small QoS grid setup
9 QoS monitoring activities Test results Script for H.323 video stream: 320 kbit/s –Throughput –Delay –Delay variation –Packet sequence errors –Lost data...
10 QoS monitoring activities Lost data
11 QoS monitoring activities Some conclusions A new tool, so experience needs to be gained Has potential: end2end and edge2edge Has security build in Still proprietary Application behavior on impaired networks...
12 QoS monitoring activities Application behavior on impaired networks Simulate impaired network eg: loss, jitter, delay variation, available bandwidth Server and client on this impairment box Determine perceived application quality –ftp, H.323/VoIP, MPEG-2, streaming, computational grid Multi dimensional space
13 QoS monitoring activities European activities Task Force - Next Generation Networking –QoS/SLS monitoring –Application behavior on impaired networks –Possible cooperation: TEQUILA, e2e Performance –PERTs
14 QoS monitoring activities Questions??? projects/nat_infrastruct/cosmega.html