학술논문

Near-Optimal Probing Planning for In-Band Network Telemetry
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Commun. Lett. Communications Letters, IEEE. 25(5):1630-1634 May, 2021
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Telemetry
Probes
Data models
Planning
Optimization
Monitoring
Routing
In-band network telemetry (INT)
math-heuristic
MILP
data plane programability
P4
Language
ISSN
1089-7798
1558-2558
2373-7891
Abstract
In-band Network Telemetry (INT) is gaining traction as an advanced network monitoring approach. Despite a few recent initiatives to orchestrate the collection of in-band network statistics, state-of-the-art approaches fall short when it comes to efficiently collect telemetry items while subjected to real-world constraints. In this letter, we propose Probe Planning for In-Band Network Telemetry (P 2 INT) to coordinate how probing packets are generated and routed to ensure that all links are covered so that the required in-band network telemetry data is collected. We theoretically formalize the problem as a Integer Linear Programming model and propose an efficient mathematical programming-based heuristic to solve it. Our results show that P 2 INT outperforms the closest contender by a factor of up to 6x concerning the number of probing cycles generated.