The MOMENT project aims at enabling Internet studies for researchers and industrials. It will integrate existing and future measurement infrastructures for traffic monitoring. Contributing to set up a common and open pan-European platform of IP networks analysis and development is the final goal of the project. The approach is based on SOA  design to retrieve measurement data about topology and traffic characteristics in public networks through a semantic representation. That implies developing a series of tools and interfaces to offer such data from a wide variety of repositories or monitoring tools like:

 

• ETOMIC: Provides a database from a traffic monitoring infrastructure for real-time measurements (delays, availabiliy...): Periodic one-way delay measurments between more than 20 nodes distributed throughout Europe.

  ·     LOBSTER: A monitoring infrastructure, based on pasive pobes, that categorize traffic and caculates packet loss, available bandwidth, etc. Results are stored in a Round-Robin Database (RRD).

  ·     DIMES:  Uses software “agents”, installed in thousands of volunteers computers around the Globe (basically executing ”traceroute”) to find Internet real topology.

  ·     RIPE: Another database that collects Routing Information System (RIS) throughout the world.

  ·     BART: Is a tool for real-time measurements that measures effective bandwidth by means of active probes.

Thus the MOMENT project will integrate major monitoring and measurement projects that have been funded under the FP6 umbrella and measurement projects that have been funded under the FP6 umbrella. In addition, important contributions to perform the traffic monitoring and related studies with legally-compliant privacy protection: Queries are filtered through an anonymization process before issuing data to clients.

Aside from technical improvements to manage huge data, the innovation of MOMENT approach consists in supporting its universal interface on semantic queries before translating them to data sources by means of web services. This objective implies developing a specific ontology for IP traffic measurements. In fact for MOMENT mediator to become a real universal interface, this ontology has to be standard: This is the goal of the ISG MOI launched in the ETSI.