Semantic Unified Access to Traffic Measurement Systems for Internet Monitoring Service

The increase of traffic in IP networks, leads operators to search for efficient tools to monitor it in order to support QoS. Several infrastructures to measure traffic and monitor routing have been deployed but SLA can not rely on them because of their lack of interoperability. MOMENT project is currently developing a mediator to access most of available traffic measurement systems. Thus a unified platform is being built so that clients can retrieve complex traffic data in a standardized format through an integrated and user friendly interface. MOMENT design is not a simple interface converter but it develops a new abstraction layer, based on a measurement-specific ontology to allow the semantic presentation and retrieval of traffic information. This paper describes its key features as well as its architecture and some implementation aspects.