Building a network performance benchmarking system using monitoring as a service infrastructure

In this work, a network benchmarking system that measures the link performance in a large network system is presented. Our previous work on monitoring as a Service system (MaaS) is extended to create a monitoring infrastructure that is capable of regular benchmarking and maintaining network performance graph. The benchmark traffic conflict is avoided by partitioning the large measured network into many smaller subnetworks that can be measured separately. A smart scheduler is developed to control the measurement and ensure that a more accurate bandwidth and latency measurement is performed. The system is developed to gather information that used to manage large Software Defined Network in the future.