RFC 3357 One-way Loss Pattern Sample Metrics August 2002 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Terminology 3 3. The Approach 3 4. Basic Definitions 4 5. Definitions for Samples of One-way Loss Distance, and One-way Loss Period 5 5.1. Metric Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5.1.1. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Distance-Stream . . . . . . . 5 5.1.2. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Period-Stream . . . . . . . . 5 5.2. Metric Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5.3. Metric Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5.3.1. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Distance-Stream . . . . . . . 5 5.3.2. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Period-Stream . . . . . . . . 5 5.4. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.4.1. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Distance-Stream . . . . . . . 6 5.4.2. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Period-Stream . . . . . . . . 6 5.4.3. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5.5. Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.6. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.7. Sampling Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.8. Errors and Uncertainties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Statistics 9 6.1. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Noticeable-Rate . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.2. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Period-Total . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6.3. Type-P-One-Way-Loss-Period-Lengths . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.4. Type-P-One-Way-Inter-Loss-Period-Lengths . . . . . . . . 10 6.5. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. Security Considerations 11 7.1. Denial of Service Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.2. Privacy / Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.3. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8. IANA Considerations 12 9. Acknowledgements 12 10. Normative References 12 11. Informative References 13 Authors' Addresses 14 Full Copyright Statement 15 Koodli & Ravikanth Informational