Traces Synchronization in Distributed Networks

Table 1

Information traced for each event.

Type of information	Event
	Transmission event	First reception event	Second reception event
General	TSC	TSC	TSC
		Address of the sk_buff* pointer	Address of the sk_buff* pointer
IP	IP source address		IP source address
	IP destination address		IP destination address
	Total length		Total length
	IHL		IHL
TCP	TCP source port		TCP source port
	TCP destination port		TCP destination port
	Sequence number		Sequence number
	Acknowledgement number		Acknowledgement number
	Data offset		Data offset
	ACK		ACK
	SYN		SYN
	FIN		FIN

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