pMeasure: A Tool for Measuring the Internet

This paper describes pMeasure, a tool for measuring large scale networks, particularly the Internet, from end to end. As the Internet grows in size and complexity, fine-grained, precise and timely measurements are needed to ensure its healthiness and ultimately benefit those mission-critical applications deployed on the Internet. The existing measurement infrastructures are unable to satisfy this need due to various reasons. pMeasure, on the other hand, is built on a Peer-to-Peer network substrate, namely Pastry, and can accomplish measurement tasks by utilizing only nodes at the edge of the Internet. The distinguishing characteristics of pMeasure, such as selforganizing and scalability, just to name a few, make it a measurement tool that can satisfy the measurement need for the Internet community efficiently and economically.