Automating Network Diagnostics

This project has two primary areas of focus:

1. A methodology for automating diagnostics
2. A protocol for automated coordination between mutually untrusted parties

Publications

• David Thaler and Chinya V. Ravishankar.  An Architecture for Inter-Domain Troubleshooting. J. Networks and System Management, 12(2): (2004)
• David G. Thaler. An architecture for inter-domain network troubleshooting, January 1998. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan.
• David Thaler and C. V. Ravishankar, "An Architecture for Inter-Domain Troubleshooting", Proc. Sixth International Conference on Computers Communications and Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, IEEE Computer Society Press, September 1997.
• David Thaler and Chinya V. Ravishankar. An architecture for inter-domain troubleshooting (extended version). Technical Report CSE-TR-344-97, University of Michigan, July 1997.

Internet Drafts

• Dave Thaler, "Globally-Distributed Troubleshooting (GDT): Protocol Specification", January 1998.

Sample Code

Sample code for BSD Unix was released back in 1997 (as trouble1.0a3-src.tar.gz and troubled1.0a1-src.tar.gz).
Contact me for more information.