In-Service Monitoring of PTP Performance
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The document discusses in-service monitoring of Precision Time Protocol (PTP) performance, emphasizing the need for real-time performance monitoring and alert systems in network operations. It covers the infrastructure and strategies for sampling network sites, probing techniques, data processing, and the importance of user-friendly result presentations. The conclusion highlights the growing accessibility of sync probing due to advancements in miniaturization and data processing.
In-Service Monitoring of PTP Performance
- 1. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.1 In-Service Monitoring of PTP Performance Dominik Schneuwly, 24th October 2016
- 2. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.2 Outline • Introduction • Sampling the Network Sites • Probing Techniques • Reduction of Data Quantity • Easy-to-Use Representation of Results • Conclusion and Outlook
- 3. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.3 What Are We Talking About? • Purpose: Monitor the performance of network in real time, raise an alarm when an action for preserving the performance is required • Means: • Permanent installation of sync probes in selected sites • Continous collection of measurement results • Anaysis and consolidation of the results into a form which is useful to the network operator (operations
- 4. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.4 Sync Probing Infrastructure NENENENENENE GM GNSS NE Probe GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS eNode B Probe GNSS Data Base Analysis Presentation Data collection channel
- 5. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.5 Sync Probing Infrastructure • Probe: Tool located in the network for the acquisition of measured data • Challenge: Density of probes vs cost • Data collection channel: • Challenge: Limitation of used traffic data rate (bandwidth) • Data base: Storage of measured data • Challenge: Limitation of stored data quantity • Analysis: Processing of the measured data and automatic interpretation •
- 6. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.6 Sampling the Network Sites • Sampling: Choosing a reasonable number of probe installation sites • Two questions: • How many? Depends on gain/cost ratio - see upcoming slides • Where? Adopt a sampling strategy! • Sampling strategies: • Random • Worst case sites, i.e. cell sites • Impact-based: privilege sites where bad performance has strong impact • Witness path: take a representative path and probe on all sites along the path
- 7. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.7 Sampling Strategy: Cell Sites S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S GM GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS Pro be GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS
- 8. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.8 Sampling Strategy: BC / APTSC Sites S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S GM GNSS Probe GNSS Pro be GNSS Pro be GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS
- 9. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.9 Sampling Strategy: Along a Path N max│TE│ eNode BNENENENENENENE Probe GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS Probe GNSS 1.1 μs At different times of the day, i.e. with different traffic loads GM GNSS NE
- 10. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.10 Probing a Slave Clock – Physical Output 4 Slave’s physical output signal can be monitored vs. GNSS GNSS Slave Clock (DUT) T1 T4 T3 10 MHz/BITS/SyncE T1 T4 T3 1PPS T-GM Network CLK TIE and 1PPS Time Error CLK and 1PPS MTIE Sync Probe
- 11. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.11 T1 T4 Probing a Slave Clock – Passive Probing GNSS Slave Clock (DUT) T3 T1 T4 T3 T3 Packet MTIE Packet Time Error T-GM Network Sync Probe • The sync probe is placed at a calibrated distance from the slave clock • The sync probe functions as a passive PTP probe (fiber tapping or mirroring switch) • Probing is based on T3 embedded in the PTP delay request messages
- 12. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.12 Probing a Boundary Clock – Active Probing • The sync probe is placed at a calibrated distance from the master port of the boundary clock • The sync probe functions as slave clock and performs measurements at the same time (active PTP probe) • Probing is based on T1 & T4 embedded in the PTP sync messages Boundary Clock (DUT) Slave Clock T1 T4 T3 T1 T4 T3 T1 T4 Packet MTIE Time Error T3 T-GM GNSS Sync Probe
- 13. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.13 T1 T4 Probing a Boundary Clock – Passive Probing Boundary Clock (DUT) Slave Clock T3 T1 T4 T3 T1 Packet MTIE Packet Time Error T-GM GNSS Sync Probe • The sync probe is placed at a calibrated distance from the master port of the boundary clock • The sync probe functions as passive PTP probe (fiber tapping or mirroring switch) • Probing is based on T1 & T4 embedded in the PTP sync messages
- 14. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.14 Distribution of Data Processing • How much data processing in the probe? • How much data processing in the analyzer? • Has an impact on: • Total cost of N probes • Cost of analyzer • Quantity of data to be transfered (from probes to data base) and stored (in data base) Metric calculation InterpretationPre-processing 2way TE calculation TEFWD TEREV e.g.: peak-to-peak MTIE etc. e.g.: comparing with mask e.g.: packet selection
- 15. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.15 Distribution of Data Processing • System cost (CAPEX) vs cost of traffic bandwith (OPEX) • Typical optimization problem seen in network function virtualization (NFV) • General tendency in NFV: centralizing processing functions • Sync probing is getting more accessible All in Probe All in Analyzer Traffic bandwidth Equipment Cost CostofnProbes CostofAnalyzer
- 16. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.16 Presentation of the Results • An easy-to-use presentation is key! • Must help in deciding corrective actions • Examples:
- 17. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.17 What to Do With the Results Presentation of the results is action-oriented; two action fields: • Operations and maintenance: • Act upon configurable parameters, software, etc. • E.g., traffic engineering, QoS, load balancing, adapting packet rates, adapting flow networking, etc. • Repairs • Short term (minutes, hours) • OPEX related • Network expansion:
- 18. © 2016 ADVA Optical Networking. All rights reserved. Confidential.18 Conclusion and Outlook • In-service monitoring of sync complements the supply of sync • In-service monitoring of sync is as necessary as ever • Miniaturization and advanced data processing make sync probing more accessible • Network function virtualization (NFV) will play an increasingly important role
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