A paper on network monitoring and measurement will be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2010, that will be held in Riccione (Italy), on June 22-25. The paper is authored by Giuseppe Aceto, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Maurizio D’Arienzo (CINI).

The paper, titled UANM: a platform for experimenting with available bandwidth estimation
tools, presents UANM (Unified Architecture for Network Measurement), a novel measurement infrastructure for an automatic management of measurement stages, tailored to the end-to-end available bandwidth estimation tools.

The authors describe in details its architecture, illustrating the features they introduced to mitigate the problems affecting available bandwidth estimation in heterogeneous scenarios.

They present an experimental validation in three selected scenarios deployed over a real network testbed: (i) showing how UANM is able to alleviate the interferences among concurrent measures; (ii) quantifying the overhead introduced by the use of UANM; (iii) illustrating how UANM is capable to provide more accurate results thanks to the knowledge of the network environment.