Title: itmBench: Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers

Authors: Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang, Sean Chen


Date: December 16, 2003

Abstract: 

Internet Traffic Managers (ITMs) are special machines placed at
strategic places in the Internet. itmBench is an interface that allows
users (e.g. network managers, service providers, or experimental
researchers) to register different traffic control functionalities to
run on one ITM or an overlay of ITMs.  Thus {\em itmBench} offers a
tool that is extensible and powerful yet easy to maintain.  ITM
traffic control applications could be developed either using a kernel
API so they run in kernel space, or using a user-space API so they run
in user space.  We demonstrate the flexibility of {\em itmBench} by
showing the implementation of both a kernel module that provides a
differentiated network service, and a user-space module that provides
an overlay routing service. Our itmBench Linux-based prototype is free
software and can be obtained from http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/itm/.