Anemone: using end-systems as a rich network management platform

Enterprise networks contain hundreds, if not thousands, of cooperative end-systems. We advocate devoting a small fraction of their idle cycles, free disk space and network bandwidth to create Anemone, a platform for network management. In contrast to current approaches which rely on traffic statistics provided by network devices, Anemone combines end-system instrumentation with routing protocol collection to provide a semantically rich view of the network. Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.3 Network Operations—Network management General Terms: Management, Measurement, Performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MINENET
• Authors: Richard Mortier, Rebecca Isaacs, Paul Barham
• Keywords: MINENET 2005, Network Bandwidth, Network Operations—Network Management, Networks Contain Hundreds