IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications 21-23 September 2009, Rende (Cosenza), Italy Large scale monitoring of home routers S. Costas-Rodr´ıguez+,R.Mart´ınez-Alvarez´ +,F.J.Gonz´alez-Casta˜no∗+, F. Gil-Casti˜neira∗,R.Duro× +Gradiant, ETSI Telecomunicaci´on, Campus, 36310 Vigo, Spain ∗Departamento de Ingenier´ıa Telem´atica, Universidad de Vigo, Spain ×Grupo Integrado de Ingenier´ıa, Universidad de La Coru˜na, Spain Tel: +34 986 813788, fax: +34 986 812116 E-mail: {scostas,rmartinez}@gradiant.org,{javier,xil}@det.uvigo.es,
[email protected] Abstract – This paper describes our experience with reception power, memory usage or uptime are useful to concurrent asynchronous monitoring of large populations of detect and fix many potential problems. end-user broadband-access routers. In our real tests we focused on home/office ADSL Despite of the wealth of research in large-scale monitoring, which assumes that it is possible to inquiry individual nodes routers, although our results are valid for any other access efficiently, end-user access routers usually have manual legacy technology. We monitored the routers of the Spanish ISP interfaces, either HTTP- or telnet-oriented. They seldom and VoIP operator Comunitel (www.comunitel.es). With offer a direct interface to other programs. Moreover, the our approach, a full monitoring cycle of 22,300 such uptime of end-user routers is unpredictable. For all these routers took less than five minutes. reasons, commercial large-scale monitoring tools such as SNMP collectors are useless. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: In This research is motivated by the fact that some telecom- section II we review the background, comprising academic munications operators do not let end-users buy their routers research and existing industrial solutions.