Aracil Rico, Javier

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Aracil Rico

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Javier

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Automática y Computación

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1175081

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1977

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Internet traffic shaping for IP over WDM links with source output buffering or multiple parallel wavelengths
(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) Aracil Rico, Javier; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Morató Osés, Daniel; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
Since the number of wavelengths per fiber is growing in an exponential fashion the over- flow traffic can be routed through overflow lightpaths, thus providing an ideal network with near-infinite capacity and almost no-buffering. Such unprecedented bandwidth growth in the network backbone is only limited by the processing speed of the electronic elements. Even though multiple parallel high-speed channels (lightpaths) are provided between IP routers the switching speed of the latter is an order of magnitude below the lightpath transmission speed. As a result, minimizing transfer delay is not only a matter of forwarding traffic as fast as possible but to shape traffic so that the input queues of the destination routers do not over-flow. Even though it is desirable to exploit the WDM capabilities to forward traffic in parallel channels in order to nearly eliminate the router output buffering, it turns out that the extreme burstiness of Internet traffic is even increased by routing part of the traffic through a backup channel. Instead, the use of source output buffering for traffic shaping purposes proves more beneficial. In this paper, we examine the typical scenario of a static WDM network with several wavelengths between IP routers. In a simple configuration of a primary and over flow lightpath the results show that if 3% of the traffic is routed through the over flow lightpath then the packet forwarding speed in the destination router should be increased in 20% in order to obtain the same transfer delay as with the single lightpath configuration with source output buffering.
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IP traffic prediction and equivalent bandwidth for DAMA TDMA protocols
(IEEE, 2003) Aracil Rico, Javier; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Morató Osés, Daniel; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
The use of IP traffic prediction techniques for DAMA TDMA protocols is investigated in this paper. The predicted traffic distribution is derived when the input traffic shows long-range dependence features. Furthermore, an equivalent bandwidth is calculated, which allows the wireless terminal to request a certain amount of bandwidth (slot duration) in terms of a target traffic loss probability. The numerical results indicate very good traffic prediction capabilities, together with moderate bandwidth loss.
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The ETOMIC active probing infrastructure: demo proposal
(2006) Csabai, István; Hága, Péter; Simon, Gábor; Stéger, József; Vattay, Gábor; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Morató Osés, Daniel; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Aracil Rico, Javier; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
ETOMIC (www.etomic.org) is a European Union sponsored effort, that aims at providing a Paneuropean traffic measurement infrastructure. This infrastructure contains 15 PC based active probing nodes equipped with high-precision, sending capable DAG cards and GPS receivers to achieve time synchronization. Such cards are specifically designed to transmit packet trains with strict timing, in the range of nanoseconds. Every kind of active probing techniques can be applied on the nodes, from the quite simple ping application to the complex network tomography methods which are based on the synchronized sending capability of the DAG cards. The measurement nodes are centrally managed via a web platform, where the new arbitrary measurement jobs can be uploaded to and handled. The management system schedules the jobs and does the maintenance tasks. Now, the infrastructure is opened to the networking community. This paper describes the node architectures, the management system, and the proposed conference demonstration.
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Delay-throughput curves for timer-based OBS burstifiers with light load
(IEEE, 2006) Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Aracil Rico, Javier; Morató Osés, Daniel; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
The OBS burstifier delay-throughput curves are analyzed in this paper. The burstifier incorporates a timer-based scheme with minimum burst size, i. e., bursts are subject to padding in light-load scenarios. Precisely, due to this padding effect, the burstifier normalized throughput may not be equal to unity. Conversely, in a high-load scenario, padding will seldom occur. For the interesting light-load scenario, the throughput delay curves are derived and the obtained results are assessed against those obtained by trace-driven simulation. The influence of long-range dependence and instantaneous variability is analyzed to conclude that there is a threshold timeout value that makes the throughput curves flatten out to unity. This result motivates the introduction of adaptive burstification algorithms, that provide a timeout value that minimizes delay, yet keeping the throughput very close to unity. The dependence of such optimum timeout value with traffic long-range dependence and instantaneous burstiness is discussed. Finally, three different adaptive timeout algorithms are proposed, that tradeoff complexity versus accuracy.
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A-priori flow bandwidth estimates for dynamic bandwidth allocation in ISP access links
(2001) Aracil Rico, Javier; Morató Osés, Daniel; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
In this paper we study a-priori bandwidth estimation algorithms for TCP flows. An RTT-based bandwidth allocator is proposed, which outperforms a broad class of peak-rate and static allocation flow switching solutions. Our findings suggest that a-priori bandwidth estimation (i.e, before the TCP data transfer phase takes place) is indeed feasible and serves to design simple, yet efficient, dynamic bandwidth allocation rules for ISP access links.
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Online detection of pathological TCP flows with retransmissions in high-speed networks
(Elsevier, 2018) Miravalls-Sierra, Eduardo; Muelas, David; Ramos, Javier; López de Vergara, Jorge E.; Morató Osés, Daniel; Aracil Rico, Javier; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
Online Quality of Service (QoS) assessment in high speed networks is one of the key concerns for service providers, namely to detect QoS degradation on-the-fly as soon as possible and avoid customers’ complaints. In this regard, a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is the number of TCP retransmissions per flow, which is related to packet losses or increased network and/or client/server latency. However, to accurately detect TCP retransmissions the whole sequence number list should be tracked which is a challenging task in multi-Gb/s networks. In this paper we show that the simplest approach of counting as a retransmission a packet whose sequence number is smaller than the previous one is enough to detect pathological flows with severe retransmissions. Such a lightweight approach eliminates the need of tracking the whole TCP flow history, which severely restricts traffic analysis throughput. Our findings show that low False Positive Rates (FPR) and False Negative Rates (FNR) can be achieved in the detection of such pathological flows with severe retransmissions, which are of paramount importance for QoS monitoring. Most importantly, we show that live detection of such pathological flows at 10 Gb/s rate per processing core is feasible.
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Predicción de tráfico de Internet and aplicaciones
(2001) Bernal, I.; Aracil Rico, Javier; Morató Osés, Daniel; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Díez Marca, L. A.; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
In this paper we focus on traffic prediction as a means to achieve dynamic bandwidth allocation in a generic Internet link. Our findings show that coarse prediction (bytes per interval) proves advantageous to perform dynamic link dimensioning, even if we consider a part of the top traffic producers in the traffic predictor.
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Analysis and stochastic characterization of TCP flows
(Springer, 2000) Aracil Rico, Javier; Morató Osés, Daniel; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
Since the most Internet services use TCP as a transport protocol there is a growing interest in the characterization of TCP flows. However, the flow characteristics depend on a large number of factors, due to the complexity of the TCP. As a result, the TCS characteristics are normally studies by means of simulations or controlled network setups. In this paper we propose a TCP characterization based on a generic model based of stochastic flow with burstiness and throughput (((σ, ρ)-constraints), which is useful in order to characterize flows in ATM and other flow-switched networks. The model is obtained through extensive analysis of a real traffic trace, comprising an approximate number of 1,500 hosts and 1,700,000 TCP connections. The results suggests that TCP connections in the wide area Internet have low throughput while the packet bursts do not suffer an exponential increase, as indicated by the slow-start behavior. On the other hand, the impact of the connection establishment phase is striking. We note that the throughput of the TCP flow is approximately half the throughput which is obtained in the data transfer phase, namely after the connection has been established.
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NATRA: Network ACK-Based Traffic Reduction Algorithm
(IEEE, 2020) García-Jiménez, Santiago; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Aracil Rico, Javier; Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación; Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren
Traffic monitoring involves packet capturing and processing at a very high rate of packets per second. Typically, flow records are generated from the packet traffic, such as TCP flow records that feature the number of bytes and packets in each direction, flow duration, number of different ports, and other metrics. Delivering such flow records, about network traffic flowing at tens of Gbps is rather challenging in terms of processing power. To address this problem, traffic thinning can be applied to reduce the input load, by swiftly discarding useless packets at the sniffer NIC or driver level, which effectively reduces the load on software layers that handle traffic processing. This work proposes an algorithm that drops empty ACK packets from TCP traffic, thus achieving a significant reduction in the packets per second that must be handled by each traffic module. The tests discussed below show that the algorithm achieves a 25% decrease in the packets per second rate with minimal information loss.
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The European Traffic Observatory Measurement Infraestructure (ETOMIC): a testbed for universal active and passive measurements
(IEEE, 2005) Morató Osés, Daniel; Magaña Lizarrondo, Eduardo; Izal Azcárate, Mikel; Aracil Rico, Javier; Naranjo Abad, Francisco José; Alonso Camaró, Ulisses; Astiz Saldaña, Francisco Javier; Vattay, Gábor; Csabai, István; Hága, Péter; Simon, Gábor; Stéger, József; Automática y Computación; Automatika eta Konputazioa
The European Traffic Observatory is a European Union VI Framework Program sponsored effort, within the Integrated Project EVERGROW, that aims at providing a paneuropean traffic measurement infrastructure with highprecision, GPS-synchronized monitoring nodes. This paper describes the system and node architectures, together with the management system. On the other hand, we also present the testing platform that is currently being used for testing ETOMIC nodes before actual deployment.