SONoMA: A Service Oriented Network Measurement Architecture

TL;DR

SONoMA is a service-oriented network measurement architecture that combines existing infrastructures with web-based accessibility, enabling complex, secure, and automated Internet measurements through a multi-layer SOA-based system.

Contribution

It introduces a multi-layer SOA-based architecture that integrates diverse measurement infrastructures with web services for accessible and automated network measurements.

Findings

Developed a public prototype system, SONoMA.

Demonstrated the system's ability to perform complex measurements.

Ensured security and data storage in a public database.

Abstract

To characterize the structure, dynamics and operational state of the Internet it requires distributed measurements. Although in the last decades several systems capable to do this have been created, the easy access of these infrastructures and orchestration of complex measurements is not solved. We propose a system architecture that combines the flexibility of mature network measurement infrastructures such as PlanetLab or ETOMIC with the general accessibility and popularity of public services like Web based bandwidth measurement or traceroute servers. To realize these requirements we developed a multi-layer architecture based on Web Services and the basic principles of SOA, which is a very popular paradigm in distributed business application development. Our approach opens the door to perform complex network measurements, handles heterogeneous measurement devices, automatically stores the results in a public database and protects against malicious users as well. To demonstrate our concept we developed a public prototype system, called SONoMA.