CMT II: An Agent Based Framework for Comprehensive IP Measurements
Thomas Fichtel, Thomas Pfeiffenberger (2006): CMT II: An Agent Based Framework for Comprehensive IP Measurements In: Proceedings: Tridentcom 2006, Barcelona
The Communication Measurement Tool II (CMT
II) is a framework for comprehensive IP measurements. It is the
next development stage of the succeeded measurement framework
called CMToolset. The purpose of an distributed measurement
framework, like CMT II is to provide detailed information about
the network for performance evaluation, network engineering
or detecting network problems. Regarding this point CMT II
operates on different layers of the OSI layer model, as well as
it is designed in an open structure in order to allow further
extensions for upcoming protocols, networks and applications.
Furthermore CMT II is designed to conduct active as well as
passive measurements. CMT II is based on the agent framework
JADE, which allows the deployment of measurement agents
on different platforms and the interaction with other agent
frameworks. Unlike other measurement tools, CMT II can also
be applied on wireless or mobile scenarios to study the influences
of wireless and mobile data transmissions.
