Traffic Measurement on the Internet

Traffic Measurement on the Internet presents several novel online measurement methods that are compact and fast.

Traffic measurement provides critical real-world data for service providers and network administrations to perform capacity planning, accounting and billing, anomaly detection, and service provision.

Statistical methods play important roles in many measurement functions including: system designing, model building, formula deriving, and error analyzing.

One of the greatest challenges in designing an online measurement function is to minimize the per-packet processing time in order to keep up with the line speed of the modern routers.

This book also introduces a challenging problem – the measurement of per-flow information in high-speed networks, as well as, the solution.

The last chapter discusses origin-destination flow measurement.