MENTOR: A network performance recommendation tool

The use of advanced applications has caused end-users to show a new interest in accessing network measurement and status data across multiple domains, in order to detect occasional network problems. Diversity on network technologies, technical solutions and network managers add to the complexity of providing such information, which, when available, includes technical details that are meaningful only to specialists. This paper presents MENTOR, a tool for traffic monitoring where applications' information are used to provide network performance recommendations in high level language, helping users on network usage.