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In addition, the collection and cross correlation of various network metrics (that perfSONAR provides) in order to identify a performance 'culprit' can provide an extensive method of wading through the vast amounts of data. It will also provide a means by which problem tickets can provide more useful information than simply that something is wrong 6.
1 The PingER Project: Active Internet Performance Monitoring for the HENP Community, IEEE Communications Magazine on Network Traffic Measurements and Experiments.
2 perfsonar modules
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5 A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Detect Anomalies in Internet Paths, Fida Hussein, Umar Kalim, Noman Latif, Syed Ali Kayam, submitted to Infocom, 2008.
6 adnan