Performance impact of architectural decisions: integrating measurement in SILO

Future Internet architectural design has attracted much research attention recently, and many novel architectural ideas have been suggested. The software and hardware realization of these architectural vision is a complex task in itself, and is worthy of research attention. In this paper, we examine a recently proposed integration of a measurement architecture in our previously described SILO architecture, and examine alternatives in realizing this integration. We demonstrate, by actual implementation and quantitative investigation, the importance of considering realization in architectural research by showing that there are unexpected factors affecting the performance of these realizations, resulting in unintended consequences, and we identify the better alternative.