Management of internet-based service quality
Date
2012
Authors
Yan, He, author
Massey, Daniel, advisor
Papadopoulos, Christos, committee member
Pallickara, Shrideep, committee member
Turk, Dan, committee member
Ge, Zihui, committee member
Yates, Jennifer, committee member
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Abstract
An increasingly diverse set of services, content distribution network (CDN), Internet games, streaming videos, online-banking, IPTV, VPN, cloud computing and VoIP, are built on top of Internet. For most of these Internet-based services, best effort delivery is no longer an acceptable mode of operation as ultra-high reliability and performance is demanded to meet the stringent service-level requirements. In this dissertation, we focus on the research problem: how to manage the Internet- based service quality in a efficient and proactive manner from a service provider's point of view. Managing Internet-based service quality is extremely challenging due to its massive scale, complicated topology, high protocol complexity, ever-changing software or hardware environment and multiple administrative domains. We propose to look into this problem from two views (user view and network view) and design a novel infrastructure that consists of three systems (Argus, G-RCA and TowerScan) to enable managing Internet-based service quality from both views. We deployed our infrastructure in a tier-1 ISP that provides various Internet-based service and it has proven to be a highly effective way to manage the quality of Internet-based services.