The tutorial will present several advanced techniques and instrumentation used for performance evaluation of network devices and across networks. Techniques for performance measurements and reporting will be introduced through examples of practical tools and current network device instrumentation. As a result of the practice, the tutorial will introduce advanced techniques for static and dynamic real-time performance metrics, measurements, and their use in the self-monitoring approach. Particular network device agents (Service Assurance Agent, NetFlow, etc.) specialized in collecting and processing performance data will be considered in conjunction with OSS specialized performance tools (Infovista's, Concord's, WAPMS, etc.). Examples from device instrumentation, MPLS use cases, both in-box and out-of-box problems, and new metrics for static and dynamic real-time performance/availability give to the presentation a concrete allure.

Petre Dini is a senior technical leader and a principal architect in Cisco Systems, Inc., being responsible for policy-based strategic architectures and protocols for network management, QoS/SLA, network performance, programmable networks and services, provisioning under QoS constraints, and consistent service manageability. His industrial research interests include mobile systems, performance, scalability, and policy-related issues in GRID networks. He is also working on particular issues in multimedia systems concerning traffic patterns and security. He worked on various industrial applications including CAD/CAM, nuclear plant monitoring, and real-time embedded software. In early 90's he worked on various Pan-Canadian projects related to object-oriented management applications for distributed systems, and to broadband services in multimedia applications. As a Researcher at the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal he coordinated many projects on distributed software and management architectures. In this period he was an Adjunct Professor with McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and a Canadian representative in the European projects. Since 1998 he was with AT&T Labs, as a senior technical manager, focusing on distributed QoS, SLA, and Performance in content delivery services.

He is the IEEE ComSoc Committee Chair of Dynamic Policy-Based control in Distributed Systems, and actively involved in the innovative NGOSS industrial initiative in TeleManagement Forum. Petre is also a Rapporteur in Study Group 4 at ITU-T. He has been an invited speaker to many international conferences, a tutorial lecturer, chaired several international conferences, and published many technical papers.He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, a Senior IEEE member, and an ACM member.

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