Research Article

Traces Synchronization in Distributed Networks

Table 1

Information traced for each event.

Type of informationEvent
Transmission eventFirst reception eventSecond reception event

GeneralTSCTSCTSC
Address of the sk_buff* pointerAddress of the sk_buff* pointer

IPIP source addressIP source address
IP destination addressIP destination address
Total lengthTotal length
IHLIHL

TCPTCP source portTCP source port
TCP destination portTCP destination port
Sequence numberSequence number
Acknowledgement numberAcknowledgement number
Data offsetData offset
ACKACK
SYNSYN
FINFIN

*sk_buff is the data structure use by Linux to represent every packet sent or received.