Estimating flow distributions from sampled flow statistics.

Passive traffic measurement increasingly employs sampling at the packet level. Many high-end routers form flow statistics from a sampled substream of packets. Sampling controls the consumption of resources by the measurement operations. However, knowledge of the statistics of flows in the unsampled...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Computer communication review. 33, 4 (2003).
Main Author:	Duffield, Nick
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Computer systems organization. Computer communication networks. Network operations. Network monitoring. Data communications. Network architecture and design. Network communications. Network protocols. TCP IP. Network management. Performance of systems. Measurement techniques. Modeling techniques. Mathematics of computing. Probability and statistics. Statistical computing. IP flows. Maximum likelihood estimation. Measurement. Measurement errors. Packet sampling. Sampling methods.