摘要: The Internet presents great challenges to the characterization of its structure and behavior. Different reasons contribute this situation, including a huge user community, large range applications, equipment heterogeneity, distributed administration, vast geographic coverage, dynamism that are typical current Internet. In order deal with these challenges, several measurement-based approaches have been recently proposed estimate better understand behavior, dynamics, properties set techniques composes Measurements area research. This overview paper covers by presenting tools methods directly influence other conventional areas, such as network design planning, traffic engineering, quality service, management.