Internet DRAFT - draft-seedorf-lmap-alto
draft-seedorf-lmap-alto
LMAP J. Seedorf
Internet-Draft NEC
Intended status: Informational D. Goergen
Expires: April 24, 2014 R. State
University of Luxembourg
V. Gurbani
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
E. Marocco
Telecom Italia
October 21, 2013
ALTO for Querying LMAP Results
draft-seedorf-lmap-alto-02
Abstract
In the context of Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance
(LMAP), measurement results are currently made available to the
public either at the finest granularity level (e.g. as a list of
results of all individual tests), or in a very high level human-
readable format (e.g. as PDF reports). This document argues that
there is a need for an intermediate way to provide access to large-
scale network measurement results, flexible enough to enable querying
of specific and possibly aggregated data. The Application-Layer
Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Protocol, defined with the goal to
provide applications with network information, seems a good candidate
to fulfill such a role. Finally, we describe our methodology for
analyzing the United States Federal Communication Commission's (FCC)
Measuring Broadband America (MBA) dataset to derive required topology
and cost maps suitable for consumption by an ALTO server.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Example Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Advantages of using ALTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. Download speeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1.1. Network map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.2. Cost map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Discussion of Useful ALTO Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Case study: Analyzing a large-scale dataset . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. Challenges in data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2. Geo-locating the units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8. IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix A. Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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1. Introduction
Recently, there is a discussion on standardizing protocols that would
allow measurements of broadband performance on a large scale (LMAP
[I-D.schulzrinne-lmap-requirements]). In principle, the vision is
that "user networks gather data, either on their own initiative or
instructed by a measurement controller, and then upload the
measurement results to a designated measurement server."
Apart from protocols that can be used to gather measurement data and
to upload such data to dedicated servers, there is also a need for
protocols to retrieve - potentially aggregated - measurement results
for a certain network (or part of a network), possibly in an
automated way. Currently, two extremes are being used to provide
access to large-scale measurement results: One the one hand, highly
aggregated results for certain networks may be made available in the
form of PDFs of figures. Such presentations may be suitable for
certain use cases, but certainly do not allow a user (or entity such
as a service provider) to select specific criteria and then create
corresponding results. On the other hand, complete and detailed
results may be made available in the form of comma-seperated-values
(csv) files. Such data sets typically include the complete results
being measured on a very fine-grained level and usually imply large
file sizes (of result data sets). Such detailed result data sets are
very useful e.g. for the scientific community because they enable to
execute complex data analytics algorithms or queries to analyse
results.
Considering the two extremes discussed above, this document argues
that there is a need for an intermediate way to provide access to
large-scale network measurement results: It must be possible to query
for specific, possibly aggregated, results in a flexible way.
Otherwise, entities interested in measurement results either cannot
select what kind of result aggregation they desire, or must always
fetch large amounts of detailed results and process these huge
datasets themselves. The need for a flexible mechanism to query for
dedicated, partial results becomes evident when considering use cases
where a service provider or a process wants to use certain
measurement results in an automated fashion. For instance, consider
a video streaming service provider which wants to know for a given
end-user request the average download speed by the end user's access
provider in the end user's region (e.g. to optimize/parametrize its
http adaptive streaming service). Or consider a website which is
interested in retrieving average connectivity speeds for users
depending on access provider, region, or type of contract (e.g. to be
able to adapt web content on a per-request basis according to such
statistics).
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This document argues that use cases as described above may enhance
the value of measurements of broadband performance on a large scale
(LMAP), given that it is possible to query for selected results in an
automated fashion. Therefore, in order to facilitate such use cases,
a protocol is needed that enables to query LMAP measurements results
while allowing to specify certain parameters that narrow down the
particular data (i.e. measurement results) the issuer of the query is
interested in. This document argues that ALTO [RFC5693]
[I-D.ietf-alto-protocol] could be a suitable candidate for such a
flexible LMAP result query protocol.
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2. Example Use Cases
To motivate the usefulness of ALTO for querying LMAP results,
consider some key use cases:
o Video Streaming Service Provider: For HTTP adaptive streaming, it
may be very useful to be able to query for average measurement
values regarding a particular end user's access network provider.
For instance, consider a video streaming service provider that
queries LMAP measurement results to retrieve for a given end-user
request the average download speed by the end user's access
provider in the end user's region. Such data could help the
service provider to optimize/parametrize its HTTP adaptive
streaming service.
o Website Front End Optimization: A website might be interested in
statistics about average connectivity types or download speeds for
a given end user request in order to dynamically adapt HTML/CSS/
JavaScript content depending on such information (sometimes
referred to as "Front End Optimization"). For instance, image
compression may or may not be employed depending on the average
connectivity type/speed of a user in a given region or with a
given access network provider.
o Display estimation of service quality or total download time to
users: A webservice could use statistics about average download
speeds for a given ISP and/or region to estimate Quality-of-
Service for provided services (e.g. to indicate to the user what
Quality-of-Experience to expect when clicking on a given link) or
to estimate (and display to the user) the total download time for
given content.
o Troubleshooting: In general, any service on the Internet may be
interested in LMAP data for troubleshooting. In case a service
does not work as expected (e.g. low throughput, high packet loss,
...), it may be of value for the service provider to retrieve
(fairly) recent measurement data regarding the host that is
requesting the service.
o TBD: add more use cases
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3. Advantages of using ALTO
The ALTO protocol [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol] specifies a very
lightweigth JSON-based encoding for network information and can play
an important role in querying the measurement results as we argue in
Section 2.
ALTO is designed on two abstractions that are useful here. First is
the abstraction of the physical network topology into an aggregated
but logical topology. In this abstract topological view, referred to
as "network map", individual hosts are aggregated into a well defined
network location identifier called a PID. Hosts could be aggregated
into the PID depending on certain identifying characteristics such as
geographical location, serving ISP, network mask, nominal access
speed, or any mix of them. The "network map" abstraction is
essential for exporting network infromation in a scalable and
privacy-preserving way.
The second abstraction that is useful for LMAP is the notion of a
"cost map". Each PID identified in the network map can, in a sense,
become a vertex in a cost map, and each edge joining adjacent
vertices can have an associated cost. The cost can be defined by the
measurement server and can indicate routing hops, the financial cost
of sending data over the link, available bandwidth on the link with
bottled-up links increasingly showing a smaller value, or a user-
defined cost attribute that allows arbitrary reasoning.
The ALTO protocol defines several basic services based on such
abstractions, but additional ones can be easily defined as
extensions.
There are other advantages to using ALTO as well. The protocol is
defined as a set of REST APIs on top of HTTP. The data carried by
the protocol is encoded as JSON. Queries can be performed by clients
locally after downloading the entire topological and cost maps or
clients can send filtered requests to the ALTO server such that the
ALTO server performs the required computation and returns the
results. The protocol supports a set of atomic constraints related
to equality that can be used to filter results and only obtain a set
of interest to the query.
Additionally, protocol extensions that could also be useful for the
LMAP usage scenario (e.g. extensions for incremental updates, for
asynchrounous change notifications and for encoding of multiple costs
within the same cost map) have been proposed and are currently being
discussed in the ALTO WG.
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4. Examples
[NOTE: syntax most certainly wrong!]
4.1. Download speeds
This section shows, as an example, how average download speeds
measured in a given time interval can be reported. The aggregation
approach in this case is based on ISP and geographical location. Two
types of data are reported in this example:
o data collected from measurements against specific endpoints (e.g.
active measurements);
o data collected from all measurements (e.g. passive measurements).
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4.1.1. Network map
{
"meta" : {},
"data" : {
"map-vtag" : "1266506139",
"map" : {
"ISP1-GEO1" : {
"ipv4" : [ "10.1.0.0/16", 172.20.0.0/16" ]
},
"ISP2-GEO1" : {
"ipv4" : [ "10.2.0.0/17" ]
},
"ISP3-GEO1" : {
"ipv4" : [ "10.3.0.0/16" ]
},
"ISP2-GEO2" : {
"ipv4" : [ "10.2.128.0/17" ]
},
"ISP4-GEO2" : {
"ipv4" : [ "10.4.0.0/16" ]
},
.
.
.
"MSMNT-CL1" : {
"ipv4" : [ "192.168.0.0/30" ]
},
"TOTAL" : {
"ipv4" : [ "0.0.0.0/0" ]
}
}
}
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4.1.2. Cost map
{
"meta" : {},
"data" : {
"cost-mode" : "numerical",
"cost-type" : "avg-dl-speed",
"map-vtag" : "1266506139",
"time-interval" : "2629740",
"map" : {
"ISP1-GEO1": { "MSMNT-CL1" : 13.2,
"TOTAL" : 10.2},
"ISP2-GEO1": { "MSMNT-CL1" : 11.4,
"TOTAL" : 12.3},
"ISP3-GEO1": { "MSMNT-CL1" : 13.2,
"TOTAL" : 10.2},
.
.
.
}
}
}
}
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5. Discussion of Useful ALTO Extensions
The base ALTO Protocol as specified in [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol] can
in principle be used to enable a more flexible way to provide access
to large-scale network measurement results as discussed in the
previous sections of this document. However, certain extensions to
the base ALTO Protocol that have recently been proposed in the ALTO
WG would allow to better enable the use cases discussed in Section 2:
o Server-initiated Notifications: In [I-D.marocco-alto-ws], it has
been proposed to enhance the ALTO protocol such that servers can
notify clients about newly available ALTO maps. In the context of
this document, this extension would allow applications to be
notified when certain new LMAP measurements are available, such as
new measurement results on average download speeds. These new
results could then be downloaded and used immediately by
applications.
o Incremental Updates: In [I-D.schwan-alto-incr-updates], it has
been proposed to enhance the ALTO protocol with incremental
updates, such that clients can retrieve partial updates for ALTO
maps instead of always downloading a full ALTO map (even when only
a small fraction of the ALTO map has changed compared to a
previous version). When ALTO is used for querying LMAP results,
the corresponding ALTO maps may potentially be quite large (e.g.
when a webservice queries for particular, detailed results
regarding a whole ISP). In this case, incremental ALTO updates
would be a very useful mechanism for applications to retrieve
updates of ALTO maps, as a reduced amount of data would be needed
for transmitting these maps.
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6. Case study: Analyzing a large-scale dataset
Measuring broadband performance is increasingly important as
communications continue to move towards the Internet. Internet
service providers (ISP), national agencies and other entities gather
broadband data and may provide some, or all, of the dataset to the
public for analysis. As we argue above, there are two extremes
prevalent for presenting large-scale data. One is in the form of
charts, figures, or summarized reports amenable for easy and quick
consumption. The other extreme includes releasing raw data in the
form of large files containing tables formatted as values separated
by a delimiter. While the former is indispensable to acquire a
summary view of the dataset, it does not suffice for additional
analysis beyond what is presented. Conversely, the problem with the
latter option (raw files) is that the unsuspecting user perusing them
is lost in the deluge of data.
We offer the argument that a reasonable medium between the two
extremes may be the ALTO protocol [I-D.ietf-alto-protocol]. A
necessary prerequisite for using ALTO is abstracting the network
information into a form that is suitable for consumption by the
protocol. The implication of using ALTO is that data from any large-
scale measurement effort must first be distilled in two maps: a
topology map and a cost map. Further analysis and ad-hoc queries can
be subsequently performed on the normalized dataset.
In the United States, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has
embarked on a nationwide performance study of residential wireline
broadband service [fcc]. Our aim is to use the raw datasets from
this study for analysis and to create a topology map and a cost map
from this dataset. ALTO queries aimed at these maps will enable
users and interested parties to fulfill the use cases listed in
Section 2.
6.1. Challenges in data analysis
The FCC Measuring Broadband America (MBA) study consisted of 7,782
volunteers spread across the United States with adequate geographic
diversity. Volunteers opted in for the study, however, each of the
volunteers remained anonymous. An opaque integral number (unit_id)
represented a subscriber in the raw dataset. This unit_id remains
constant during the duration of the study in the dataset and uniquely
identifies a volunteer subscriber, even if the subscriber switches
the ISP. More detail about the methodology used is described in
[fcc].
The dataset consisted of 12 tables, each table corresponding to the
data drawn from a certain performance test. For the analysis we
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present in this document we focus on the "curr_dns" table, which
contains the time taken for the ISP's recursive DNS resolver to
return a DNS A RR for a popular website domain name. This test was
ran approximately every hour in a 24-hour period, and produced about
75-78 million records per month. This resulted in a typical file
size in the range of 6-7 GBytes per month. We note that the
"curr_dns" table is one of the smaller tables in the dataset.
The first challenge, therefore, was to arrive at computing resources
comparable in scale with respect to the dataset consisting of
millions of records spread across gigabyte-sized files. To analyze
the volume of data we used a canonical Map-Reduce computational
paradigm on a Hadoop cluster (more details on the methodology are
outlined in Section 6.2).
A second, more pressing challenge, was to identify the geographic
location of the unit_ids generating the data. In order to derive a
topological map and impose costs on the links, it is important to
know the physical locations of the unit_ids that contributed the
measurements. However, in the MBA dataset, the population is
anonymized and the individual subscriber reporting the measurement
data is simply referred to by an opaque integral number. Therefore,
an important task was to use the information in the public tables to
reveal a coarse location of the subscriber.
We outline the methodology we used to do so in the next section. We
stress that this methodology does not identify the specific location
of a subscriber, who still remains anonymous. Instead, it simply
locates the subscriber in a larger metropolitan region. This level
of granularity suffices for our work.
6.2. Geo-locating the units
To geo-locate the units, we simply note that broadband subscriber
devices are likely to be configured using DHCP by their ISP. Besides
imparting an IP address to the subscriber device, DHCP also populates
the DNS name servers the subscriber devices uses for DNS queries. In
most installations, these DNS name servers are located in close
physical proximity of the subscriber device. The FCC technical
appendix states that the DNS resolution tests were targeted directly
at the ISP's recursive resolvers to circumvent caching and users
configuring the subscriber device to circumvent the ISP's DNS
resolvers. Therefore, a reasonable approximation of a subscribers
geo-location could be the geographic location of the DNS name server
serving the subscriber. We use this very heuristic to geo-locate a
subscriber.
Thus our first, and very simple filter consisted of obtaining a
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mapping from a unit_id (representing a subscriber) to one or more DNS
name servers that the unit_id is sending DNS requests to. It turned
out that while this was a necessary condition for advancing, it was
not a sufficient one. The raw data would need to be further
processed to reduce inconsistencies and remove outliers. A number of
interesting artifacts were uncovered during further processing of the
data. These artifacts informed the selection of the unit_ids for
further analysis.
The artifacts are documented below.
o A handful of unit_ids were geo-located in areas outside the
contiguous United States, such as Ukraine, Poland or the United
Kingdom. We theorize that the subscribers corresponding to the
unit_ids geo-located outside the contiguous United States had
simply configured their devices to use alternate DNS servers,
probably located outside the United States. We removed these
records before conducting our analysis.
o We also observed a reasonable number of non-ISP DNS resolvers,
especially Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and OpenDNS 208.67.222.222
and 208.67.220.220. These 4 public DNS servers are geo-located in
California. We removed these records to ensure that the specific
location that these resolvers represented was not oversampled.
o We noticed that a large number of unit_ids were being geo-located
in Potwin, Kansas. Intrigued as to why there appeared to be a
large population of Internet users being located in a small rural
community in Kansas, we investigated further. It appears that
Potwin, Kansas is the geographical center of the United States and
a number of ISPs have chosen to establish data centers in or
around the Potwin area. These ISPs generally locate their primary
or secondary DNS name servers in Potwin-area data centers, thus
accounting for the popularity of Potwin as an Internet
destination. We continue to further investigate on minimizing the
impact of such natural aggregation points that, if not accounted
for, will skew our results in an unwarranted direction.
o We observed some unit_ids changing ISPs during the observation
period. This is a normal occurrence and to the extent that the
unit_id is geo-located in the same geographical area after the
change in ISP, we do not exclude such unit_ids from further
analysis.
Subsequent filters extracted the stable unit_ids from our dataset.
In order to determine which unit_id are stable, i.e., remain constant
with respect to their geographic location over the observation period
from January to December 2012, we extracted for each unit_id the IP
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address of each DNS name server it consulted. This is obtained by
applying the map reduce paradigm on the DNS dataset. We extracted
for each unit_id the triggered DNS servers and obtained the
individual DNS servers accessed by a unit_id. This was repeated for
each month of the observation period. The resulting sets were
cleaned up of private IP addresses and other artifacts discussed
above. The cleaned set consisted of about 8000 distinct unit_id.
In order to determine the stability of each unit_id we proceeded to
sum up the occurrences of IP addresses over the whole observation
period separated in monthly files. If the IP address of a DNS server
occurred 12 times this meant that the unit_id always accessed the
same DNS server and therefore remained stable over the observation
period. The obtained stable unit_ids, around 1500, will be used for
further analysis. Assuming a 99% confidence level and +/- 3 point
margin of error, we will require a sample of 1494 unit_ids. With our
stable unit_id set of 1500 unit_ids, we are now positioned to perform
further analysis on the dataset to create the full topology and cost
maps.
Table 1 presents a sample of the geographic location data that we
have uncovered for unit_ids. A complete list of identified units
superimposed on the geographical map of the United States is
available at http://cdb.io/13UOHgD.
+---------+-----------------+--------------------------+
| Unit ID | City, State | Latitude/Longitude |
+---------+-----------------+--------------------------+
| 872 | Morganville, NJ | 40.35950089,-74.26280212 |
| | | |
| 885 | Madison, WI | 43.07310104,-89.40119934 |
| | | |
| 898 | Foley, AL | 30.40660095,-87.68360138 |
| | | |
| 7969 | Manteca, CA | 37.79740143,-121.2160034 |
| | | |
| 8024 | Quincy, MA | 42.25289917,-71.00229645 |
+---------+-----------------+--------------------------+
Sample unit identification tuples
Table 1
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7. Security considerations
There are no security artifacts invalidated due to our analysis in
Section 6. All of our analysis was performed on publicly available
data. However, we do note that some privacy may have been lost based
on our analysis. In the raw dataset, the unit identifiers are opaque
strings with no immediate correlation with a geographic location.
After our analysis, while the unit identifiers still remain opaque,
they are nonetheless correlated to a specific, though coarse,
geographic location.
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8. IANA considerations
This document does not contain any IANA considerations.
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9. Conclusion
This document argues that, compared to existing solutions, there may
be a need for a more flexible way to provide access to large-scale
network measurement results. Further, the document argues that the
ALTO protocol is a good candidate to enable querying for specific,
possibly aggregated, measurement results in a flexible way. Examples
of how such a flexible query meachnism for large-scale measurement
results could look like based on ALTO are given.
With respect to the case study in Section 6, identification of the
geographic location of the unit_ids generating the performance data
is essential in order to continue the work. We have presented a
methodology and some early results in identifying a geographic
location. This location, although coarse, suffices for our future
work that will consist of further data mining and analysis to create
appropriate ALTO network and cost maps.
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10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC5693] Seedorf, J. and E. Burger, "Application-Layer Traffic
Optimization (ALTO) Problem Statement", RFC 5693,
October 2009.
10.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-alto-protocol]
Alimi, R., Penno, R., and Y. Yang, "ALTO Protocol",
draft-ietf-alto-protocol-20 (work in progress),
October 2013.
[I-D.marocco-alto-ws]
Marocco, E. and J. Seedorf, "WebSocket-based server-to-
client notifications for the Application-Layer Traffic
Optimization (ALTO) Protocol", draft-marocco-alto-ws-01
(work in progress), July 2012.
[I-D.schulzrinne-lmap-requirements]
Schulzrinne, H., Johnston, W., and J. Miller, "Large-Scale
Measurement of Broadband Performance: Use Cases,
Architecture and Protocol Requirements",
draft-schulzrinne-lmap-requirements-00 (work in progress),
September 2012.
[I-D.schwan-alto-incr-updates]
Schwan, N. and B. Roome, "ALTO Incremental Updates",
draft-schwan-alto-incr-updates-02 (work in progress),
July 2012.
[fcc] United States Federal Communications Commission,
"Measuring Broadband America", Accessed July 12,
2013, http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america.
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Appendix A. Acknowledgment
Jan Seedorf is partially supported by the mPlane project (mPlane: an
Intelligent Measurement Plane for Future Network and Application
Management), a research project supported by the European Commission
under its 7th Framework Program (contract no. 318627). The views and
conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not
be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or
endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the mPlane project or
the European Commission.
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Authors' Addresses
Jan Seedorf
NEC
Kurfuerstenanlage 36
Heidelberg 69115
Germany
Phone: +49 6221 4342 221
Fax: +49 6221 4342 155
Email: seedorf@neclab.eu
David Goergen
University of Luxembourg
Email: david.goergen@uni.lu
Radu State
University of Luxembourg
Email: radu.state@uni.lu
Vijay K. Gurbani
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Email: vkg@bell-labs.com
Enrico Marocco
Telecom Italia
Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274
Turin 10148
Italy
Email: enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it
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