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The Computer Journal Advance Access published online on June 26, 2009
The Computer Journal, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxp058
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Understanding the Quality of Monitoring for Network Management

Dinesh Verma1, Bong Jun Ko1, Petros Zerfos1,*, Kang-won Lee1, Ting He1, Matthew Duggan2, Kristian Stewart2, Ananthram Swami3 and Nikoletta Sofra4

1 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Networking Technology, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY, 10532 USA
2 IBM United Kingdom Limited, 76/78 Upper Ground, South Bank, London UK SE1 9PZ, UK
3 Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, 20783, USA
4 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK

* Corresponding author: pzerfos{at}us.ibm.com

Received 3 October 2008; revised 20 March 2009

The vitality and utility of a network are affected significantly by the network management system (NMS) that is used to administer and monitor the network. However, models that can characterize the quality of a NMS are generally missing in the literature. In this paper, we introduce the concept of quality of monitoring (QoM), provide a mathematical formulation based on stochastic processes that can be used to model a network monitoring system and define QoM metrics based on this formulation. A formal analysis of the proposed framework along various metrics is also provided, along with a case study of its application to network monitoring in a mobile ad hoc network.

Key Words: network monitoring • quality of monitoring • network managenment

Handling editor: Erol Gelenbe


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