Title
A State-Space Approach for Optimal Traffic Monitoring via Network Flow Sampling.
Abstract
The robustness and integrity of IP networks require efficient tools for traffic monitoring and analysis, which scale well with traffic volume and network size. We address the problem of optimal large-scale flow monitoring of computer networks under resource constraints. We propose a stochastic optimization framework where traffic measurements are done by exploiting the spatial (across network links) and temporal relationship of traffic flows. Specifically, given the network topology, the state-space characterization of network flows and sampling constraints at each monitoring station, we seek an optimal packet sampling strategy that yields the best traffic volume estimation for all flows of the network. The optimal sampling design is the result of a concave minimization problem; then, Kalman filtering is employed to yield a sequence of traffic estimates for each network flow. We evaluate our algorithm using real-world Internet2 data.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
CoRR
Flow network,Traffic generation model,Mathematical optimization,Network planning and design,Computer science,Network simulation,Real-time computing,Network topology,Sampling (statistics),Network traffic control,Network traffic simulation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1306.5793
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael G. Kallitsis1164.26
Stilian Stoev2788.03
George Michailidis330335.19