Research on a Framework for Local Network Resource Accounting

摘要

The project developed models and techniques for resource accounting in extendedlocal area networks (LANs) and internets. The utility of the Phase I work is three-fold. First, researchers have documented and extended the state-of-the art, exploring all facets of network accounting in detail. In the case of an Ethernet environment, they have arrived at a much refined version of what is possible in an accounting system. Second, they have proposed a general system architecture and quantified the computational task for the network monitor. Third, the practiced art of network monitoring and accounting has been extended by showing (in prose and software) that, for many protocols/applications, there are several ways for a system to aggregate the traffic of communicating processes into a single session.