Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks

Classification Context

Section:

ELECTRICITY

Class:

ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Subclass:

TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION

Scope Notes

Glossary: Active monitoring Observing the network by actively, adding, marking or injecting data into the network to provide monitoring results with very limited or negligible impact on the monitored network or traffic. Monitoring Monitoring comprising passive and active monitoring. Passive monitoring Observing the network by measuring passing traffic or setting counters, probes or analysers at different points in the network without impacting the network traffic, e.g. traffic mirroring to a sniffer. Quality of service Quality measurement or description of the performance of a service, the quality measurement relating to specific network parameters of the network packets related to the service which describe the treatment experienced by the packets while passing through the network, e.g. packet loss, bit errors, bit rate, throughput, goodput, delay, availability or jitter. Testing Observing the network by adding or injecting data into the network to provide test results with considerable impact on the network or traffic.

Child Classifications

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• H04L 43/02 Capturing of monitoring data
• H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• H04L 43/1 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• H04L 43/18 Protocol analysers
• H04L 43/2 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• H04L 43/5 Testing arrangements