An autonomic approach to verify end-to-end communication quality

The complexity of today's computer networks requires highly trained professionals to verify the end-to-end connectivity between two communication partners. The concept of autonomic networks has been proposed in an effort to make such networks easier to manage. In this context, we present a plug-and-play mechanism to check the connectivity between two end points of the network. It will significantly decrease the amount of mundane work, which is usually involved in such a task. The main goals of our work are to autonomically set-up the measurement environment, to capture the current conditions between the two communication partners and to visualize the results in an easy-to-interpret way.