@inproceedings { SoftCOM2020-HiPerConTracer,
	title = {HiPerConTracer - A Versatile Tool for IP Connectivity Tracing in Multi-Path Setups},
	journal = {Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM)},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	address = {Hvar, Dalmacija/Croatia},
	abstract = {Nowadays, we see a steadily increasing number of Internet devices with connections to multiple networks. For example, every smartphone provides mobile broadband and Wi-Fi connectivity. Multi-path transport protocols, like MPTCP, CMT-SCTP or Multipath-QUIC, allow for utilising all connected networks simultaneously. However, while there is a lot of research on the Transport Layer aspects of multi-path transport, there is not much work on the Network Layer perspective, yet.

In this paper, we introduce our Open Source tool HiPerConTracer (High-Performance Connectivity Tracer) for efficient, parallelised, long-term measurements of the path connectivity characteristics among multi-homed Internet systems. HiPerConTracer is now running as a permanent feature in the NorNet Core infrastructure, which is used for research on multi-homed systems, and in particular for research on multi-path transport. Based on the HiPerConTracer data collected in NorNet Core so far, we finally present some interesting results from the analysis of the inter-continental site connectivity between China and Norway in January 2020.
},
	keywords = {HiPerConTracer, Multi-Path Transport, NorNet, NorNet Core, Ping, Traceroute},
	author = {Dreibholz, Thomas}
}
