COST 263 Common Measurement Infra-structure

Goal
To create a test-bed between partner sites for Voice Over IP measurements. Scripts will periodically send telephony like conversations between sites and the quality and reliability of the links will be measured to assess the suitability of the Internet for IP telephony.

Participating Sites from COST 263 program
Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland
GMD Fokus (GMD), Berlin, Germany
Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (INFOB), Namur, Belgium
SICS, Stockholm, Sweden

Joining in
We need to establish logins on UNIX machines at our respective sites, please mail me ianm@sics.se if you can provide me with a login on your machines. If you would like an account in Sweden please fill in the form http://www.sics.se/crit/sysadm/newaccount.html add in the comment field you are a member of the COST 263 working group, your name, your association and contact information.

Trace files
All files (currently 10355) are gnuzip compressed (winace 2.11 can decompress this format on Windows). The directories indicate the sender and the receiver, the filename is the GMT + 1. We used a standardised time to easily detect bidirectional traces. We are working on providing (renaming) traces with localtime filenames.

veloso     Amhurst, Mass
obo02      Namur, Belgium
zorzal	   Buenos Aires, Argentina
topor      Tampere, Finland
idmaps	   Ann Arbor, Michigan
rain       Berkeley, California
local_host Stockolm, Sweden
login      Lulea, Sweden
helena	   Berlin, Germany

The general format of the filename is:

.log_format


200202041808.log.gz

An alternative (newer) format that might be seen is:

yyyymmddhhmm_silenceSuppression_packetSize.log.gz

200202041808_0_20.log.gz for example. Where 0 indicates silence supression and 1 means no silence supression. The packet size is in milliseconds (packetisation so 20 means 160 bytes). Trace files can be browsed here VoIP traces. They are can be downloded as tarred gzip files for each connection.
Each directory in KB is :
10360	idmaps_veloso
10300	rain_veloso
9924	topor_veloso
9768	idmaps_topor
9736	rain_obo02
9656	rain_topor
9416	topor_obo02
9356	veloso_topor
9336	idmaps_obo02
9136	veloso_obo02
8756	rain_idmaps
8732	veloso_idmaps
8500	topor_idmaps
5884	idmaps_rain
5748	local_host_topor
5680	topor_rain
5488	local_host_obo02
5340	veloso_rain
5336	local_host_veloso
4788	zorzal_veloso
4708	zorzal_obo02
4648	zorzal_topor
4636	local_host_idmaps
4196	zorzal_idmaps
4060	login_veloso
3984	login_obo02
3916	login_topor
3520	login_idmaps
3508	idmaps_login
3476	veloso_login
3340	topor_zorzal
3316	local_host_zorzal
3316	idmaps_zorzal
3276	veloso_zorzal
3276	rain_login
3252	topor_login
3144	rain_zorzal
3112	local_host_rain
2392	login_rain
2232	zorzal_rain
2104	idmaps_local_host
1916	rain_local_host
1880	topor_local_host
1788	veloso_local_host
1452	zorzal_local_host
820	obo02_idmaps
404	obo02_rain
388	obo02_topor
376	obo02_veloso
368	obo02_local_host
324	obo02_zorzal
4	zorzal_helena
4	veloso_helena
4	topor_helena
4	rain_helena
4	obo02_helena
4	local_host_helena
4	idmaps_helena
4	helena_zorzal
4	helena_veloso
4	helena_topor
4	helena_rain
4	helena_obo02
4	helena_local_host
4	helena_idmaps

These files are broken:
helena_rain: 200205170735_0_20.log
helena_rain: 200205091826_0_20.log
topor_rain: 200205171830_0_20.log


Last updated Mon Oct 20 12:13:29 CEST 2003 by Ian Marsh