The tasks of measurement and data transport are often treated independently, but we believe there are benefits to bringing them together. This paper proposes the simple idea of a transport agent to encapsulate useful data within probe packets in place of useless padding.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{papageorgiou04probe,
TITLE = {Merging Network Measurement with Data Transport (Extended Abstract)},
AUTHOR = {Pavlos Papageorgiou and Michael Hicks},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Passive/Active Measurement Workshop (PAM)},
JOURNAL = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
VOLUME = 3431,
PUBLISHER = {Springer-Verlag},
MONTH = {March},
WHERE = {Boston, USA},
YEAR = {2005},
PAGES = {368--371}
}