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Analyzing Router Responsiveness to Active Measurement Probes

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Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM 2009)

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Active probing has increasingly been used to collect information about the topological and functional characteristics of the Internet. Given the need for active probing and the lack of a widely accepted mechanism to minimize the overhead of such probes, the traffic and processing overhead introduced on the routers are believed to become an important issue for network operators. In this paper, we conduct an experimental study to understand the responsiveness of routers to active probing both from a historical perspective and current practices. One main finding is that network operators are increasingly configuring their devices not to respond to active direct probes. In addition, ICMP based probes seem to elicit most responses and UDP based probes elicit the least.

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  1. University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA

    Mehmet H. Gunes

  2. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA

    Kamil Sarac

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  1. Computer Science Department, KAIST, Gwahangno 335, Yuseong-Gu, 305-701, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Sue B. Moon

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, 75016, Paris, France

    Renata Teixeira

  3. T-labs/TU Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Steve Uhlig

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Gunes, M.H., Sarac, K. (2009). Analyzing Router Responsiveness to Active Measurement Probes. In: Moon, S.B., Teixeira, R., Uhlig, S. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00975-4_3

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