Index

• Differential services/pricing
• Traffic measurement/analysis
• Monitoring/performance tools
• Simulation/traffic generation
• TCP
• ECN/RED
• L3 switching
• Advanced networks
• Workshops
• Commercial world

Differential services/pricing

• Internet pricing links by R. Gibbens.
• Internet pricing work by J. Crowcroft and Ph. Oechslin
• Differentiated Services (diffserv), Differentiated Service for the Internet
• SIMA proposal
• UKERNA traffic accounting server
• Usage charging for US-UK transatlantic network traffic
• Network Charging FAQ
• Networking Charging Briefing Day
• Internet2 QBone
• Internet2 QBone Bandwidth Broker Advisory Council, Bandwidth Broker Information more diffserv/BB info
• RSVP Admission Policy (rap)
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls)
• IP Differentiated Services
• Integrated Services over Specific Link Layers (issll)
• Internet2 and Internet Economics

• Tutorial: Insight Into Current Internet Traffic Workloads
• vBNS. Contains traffic measurement papers/presentations. See also Network Traffic and Performance Monitoring
• Measurement and Operations Analysis Team (MOAT) team, NLANR. Packet traces available here. See also WAN packet size distribution
• Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
• OCXmon
  • CoralReef and the older Coral
  • More information on CoralReef: applications, documentation, FAQs
  • OC3mon/Coral work at MCI, Apisdorf's latest Coral-DOS stuff
  • Presentation: NLANR Network Analysis Infrastructure
  • OC3mon paper.
  • hardware, OCxmon home page (how to put together)
• cflowd
  • cflowd presentation
  • NetFlow presentation
• IP Performance Metrics (ippm) WG, Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg)
• The Internet Traffic Archive
• Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement (rtfm) , See also Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement @ Auckland
• NeTraMet
• Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis Project (IPMA)
• Teletraffic group
• MITTA-Models for Integrated Telecommunications Network Traffic and Architecture
• The University of Waikato WARP group . Also Cell trace data archive
• National Internet Measurement Infrastructure (NIMI), Networking Research at the PSC
• PingER
• MINC Multicast-based Inference of Network-internal Characteristics
• Project Felix, Bellcore or here
• Surveyor
• NLANR AMP project
• National Center for Network Engineering (NCNE),NLANR
• Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM), Network organizations of interest, Interesting Web Sites for Internet Monitoring ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force (NMTF) (old).
• NANOG
• European Traffic Measurements Task Force (TF-ETM) , TERENA
• New Traffic Models for Internet Connections & VBR Video Traffic
• CA*net II Stats & Measurements Effort
• Flow-Based Monitoring and Analysis
• Perf. Measurement and Analysis, ORNL
• RIPE Test Traffic project
• SNU Traffic Measurement & Analysis Project
• Internet Distance Map Service (IDMaps) Project
• SPAND
• Detour, CS, Univ. of Washington
• NetCalliper Project
• Real-Time End-to-End Characterization of Network Connections
• ICITE, Rice Univ.
• Long-Term Traffic Statistics, Internet Performance and Traffic Measurements, Short-Term (Real-Time) Traffic, Loss and Delay Statistics
• FlowInfo: Flow Information in Broadband and Multimedia Communications
• Network Performance and Management Research
• Some network performance links
• more links
• ATM latency testing using GPS
• Cisco's OC-3c ATM SwitchProbe devide
• Cisco's IP Usage
• QMetrix: performance management solutions for the real world
• Management System for Heterogeneous Networks (MSHN)
• Server and Agent based Active network Management, Navy Postgraduate School
• Intelligent and Adaptive Management of Multi-Class Networks, Purdue
• SCAN, ISI
• ANCORS: Adaptable Network COntrol and Reporting System
• The ENABLE Project Home Page
• Adaptation With Predictable Real-Time Performance
• Dynamic Network Emulation Backplane
• QoS mngmt tools
• Internet Accounting: How Internet Traffic is Measured, JCU, Australia
• Measuring the CoS of the IP network supporting the Megaconferance H.323 network

  Online analysis:

  • Measurement and Operations Analysis Team (MOAT) team: packet and flow based analysis.
  • OC3MON/Coral and Flow Data Information, MCI , Web Page Interface to Data: Description and Availability
  • Using mrtg (multi-router traffic grapher): vBNS snmp stats, BCnet GigaPOP Router, University of Texas at Austin Connection to vBNS

• Tutorial on Internet Monitoring at SLAC , Network Monitoring Tools
• Caida's tools, Caida's tool taxonomy
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
• Iperf
• tcptrace
• Internet Traffic Modeling with TMODEL
• polygraph proxy performance benchmark
• netperf
• netpipe
• MGEN
• Measurement tools
• bing
• ntop
• Nettimer, measuring bandwidth
• MTR
• RUDE/CRUDE. Something like MGEN but with better accuracy
• nttcp. ttcp with UDP support (only ?)
• pttcp, ttcp+.

• NS simulator, Example Traffic Trace for ns
• REAL
• NIST Net. network emulation
• Network Simulators and related stuff
• Chitra Project
• cnet, see also cnet
• NetSim++
• C++SIM
• Scalable Network Simulation: Dynamic Aggregation
• An Empirical Model of HTTP Network Traffic
• Session-level simulation CNRG, Cornell
• Optimizing Simulation for Large Networks, ANA, MIT
• Scalable Self-Organizing Simulations (S3) or here
• SSF Research Network
• Web Characterization Activity
• Smart Nets: Simulation and Modeling for Adaptive Real-time Networks

• A User's guide to TCP windows.
• Enabling High Performance Data Transfers on Hosts.
• Experimental TCP Selective Acknowledgment Implementations.
• TCP/IP RESEARCH PAPERS
• The TCP-Friendly Website
• A Quick Tour Around TCP
• tcptrace
• tcp/ip links
• TCP debuging, Network Based TCP Tuning

• ECN
• RED

• Multi Layer Routing
• MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS)

• vBNS
• University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development: Internet 2, Abilene Project ,
• NREN (Nasa Research and Education Network)
• MREN
• STAR TAP
• Canarie
• CENIC. CENIC CalREN-2 Designs
• TF-TANT: A joint activity between TERENA and DANTE
• European Traffic Measurements Task Force (TF-ETM)
• W3 Web Characterization Activity

• Network Modeling and Simulation Kickoff Meetings
• First Joint Internet2 / DOE QoS Workshop QBone: Early Experiences and the Road Ahead
• Internet Measurement, Instrumentation and Characterization
• ISMA'98, Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA)
• NANOG meetings
• DIMACS Workshop on End-to-End Network Modeling and Simulations
• vBNS Techs Meetings
• Internet2: Joint Applications/Engineering QoS Workshop
• Canarie

• Tuning IP Performance: The Right Tools for the Task, Data Communications
• Policy-Based Networking: The New Class System, Data Communications
• Cutting Through Layer 4 Hype, Foundry. More white papers
• Some other white papers by Torrent
• Netreference
  • The Big vs. Managed Bandwidth Debate
  • LAN routing everywhere
  • New routers change everything
  • Route once, switch many
  • Layer 4 switching
  • Rate Control to Enhance Network Service Quality
• The Red Herring
  • Could be contenders: Venture capitalists are backing Cisco's potential challengers.
  • CHIPPING AWAY AT THE OLD BLOCK

Distributed/server-based solutions (according to Data Communication's classification in Policy-Based Networking: The New Class System)

• Cisco IOS application enabling network services
  • Advanced Internet Initiatives (AII)
  • Cisco IOS QoS
  • Internet Quality of Service
  • Advanced QoS Services for the Intelligent Internet
  • Queuing, Traffic Shaping, and Filtering
  • Netflow Switching
  • Policy-Based Routing
• 3Com's strategy for differentiated service
• Providing Enterprise-Wide, End-to-End QoS, CLASSifier Product Family, Class Data
• ExtremeWare, Extreme Networks
• Enabling Services, Bay Networks
• QoS - the YAGO approach, YAGO
• BigIron switches and switching routers, ServerIron server load balancing switch Foundry
• Orchestream
• SwitchSoft
• IPHighway

• TCP rate control, Packeteer Inc.
• Allot's technology, Allot Communications
• FloodGate-1, Policy-based Bandwidth Management, Check Point Software Technologies
• Aponet Bandwidth-Manager, Bandwidth Monitor, APONET
• IPath active traffic manager, Structured Internetworks
• Xedia
• Ukiah products
• Amplifynet

• SpeedSeeker, Sitara Networks
• Flash Networks.

• Differentiated Services (diffserv), Differentiated Service for the Internet
• Internet2 QBone, QoS WG
• Internet2 Bandwidth Broker Information
• IRL/UCLA, work on Differentiated Services
• Olov Schelen's(Luleå University of Technology) work on agent based reservation architectures
• Policy Framework (policy) WG
• QoS/Globus
• intra-domain leaf (or stub or customer or campus or corporate) network
  • Integrated Services over Specific Link Layers (issll) , A Framework For Integrated Services Operation Over Diffserv Networks
  • microsoft 20000 qos support
• intra-domain ISP (or transit or provider) network
  • MPLS/Diffserv
  • MPLS/VPN
  • BGP/MPLS VPNs RFC2547
  • A Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE) RFC2430
  • Duffield's (AT&T) work on VPN resource mgmt
• misc
  • Imaging and Distributed Collaboration Group Quality of Service Work, LBL
  • darwin
  • Benchmark Specifications and Tests
  • Servie Level Mgmt
  • ASP news

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