Management of sampled real-time network measurements

Abstract

An overview is presented of the statistical sampling of measurements from a computer network, a necessary task in all five facilities of the proposed ISO network management architecture. Network measurement, viewed from the standpoint of real-time status reporting, is performed either to approximate the condition of a network parameter over a given interval or to detect a significant change in system behavior over consecutive intervals. Appropriate statistical tools for sampling and analyzing traffic in real time are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>