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Distributed monitoring
Examples of what is needed:
track number/quality of VoIP calls
find best proxies / peers (P2P)
Goal: a lightweight, distributed monitoring layer offering aggregates of local info to applications
Sum, average, extreme, percentile, histogram, …
Difficulty: bandwidth and CPU usage -> lightweight!
Find trade-offs
Tree-based versus gossip-based protocols
PPT Version