Architecture of Multiagent Internet Measurement System MWING Release 2
Leszek Borzemski24
, Łukasz Cichocki24 and Marta Kliber24
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Institute of Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland |
Abstract
Internet performance measurements have motivated the development of a measurement system called MWING. Recently the existing
system has evolved according to new requirements and now also distributed measurements are handled in Release 2. MWING system
Release 2 is a multi-agent system that is used to perform tests, measurements and diagnosis of Internet and Web performance
from the end user perspective. Multiple agents freely scattered in the Internet can, in synchronous or asynchronous manner,
probe collectively given set of Web sites, and collect mutual performance data. This data can be used in the analysis of Internet
performance e.g. for the needs of Content Delivery Networks and Grids. This kind of measurements is also desired and helpful
for Internet Service Providers since it enables monitoring and analysis how ISP’s domain is perceived by end-users from various
Internet locations.
Keywords Internet measurements - performance evaluation - multiagent system
This work was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under Grant No. N516 032 31/3359 (2006-2009).
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