Pavlos Papageorge

Pavlos Papageorge

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    Network Error Logging: Client-side measurement of end-to-end web service reliability
    Ben Jones
    Brian Rogan
    Charles Stahl
    Douglas Creager
    Harsha V. Madhyastha
    Ilya Grigorik
    Julia Elizabeth Tuttle
    Lily Chen
    Misha Efimov
    17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2020
    Preview abstract We present NEL (Network Error Logging), Google’s planet scale, client-side, network reliability measurement system. NEL is implemented in Chrome and has been proposed as a new W3C standard, letting any web site operator collect reports of clients’ successful and failed requests to their sites. These reports are similar to web server logs, but include information about failed requests that never reach serving infrastructure. Reports are uploaded via redundant failover paths, reducing the likelihood of shared-fate failures of report uploads. We have used NEL to monitor all of Google’s domains since 2014, allowing us to detect and investigate instances of DNS hijacking, BGP route leaks, protocol deployment bugs, and other problems where packets might never reach our servers. This paper presents the design of NEL, case studies of real outages, and deployment lessons for other operators who choose to use NEL to monitor their traffic. View details
    An Internet-Wide Analysis of Traffic Policing
    Tobias Flach
    Luis Pedrosa
    Tayeb Karim
    Ethan Katz-Bassett
    Ramesh Govindan
    SIGCOMM (2016)
    Preview abstract Large flows like videos consume significant bandwidth. Some ISPs actively manage these high volume flows with techniques like policing, which enforces a flow rate by dropping excess traffic. While the existence of policing is well known, our contribution is an Internet-wide study quantifying its prevalence and impact on video quality metrics. We developed a heuristic to identify policing from server-side traces and built a pipeline to deploy it at scale on hundreds of servers worldwide within one of the largest online content providers. Using a dataset of 270 billion packets served to 28,400 client ASes, we find that, depending on region, up to 7% of lossy transfers are policed. Loss rates are on average 6× higher when a trace is policed, and it impacts video playback quality. We show that alternatives to policing, like pacing and shaping, can achieve traffic management goals while avoiding the deleterious effects of policing. View details
    Passive aggressive measurement with MGRP
    Justin McCann
    Michael Hicks
    SIGCOMM '09: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 279-290
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