Estimating cardinality distributions in network traffic: extended abstract

  • Authors:
  • Aiyou Chen;Li Li;Jin Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA;Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA;Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Information on network host connectivity patterns are important for network monitoring and traffic engineering. In this paper, an efficient streaming algorithm is proposed to estimate cardinality distributions including connectivity distributions, e.g. percent of hosts with any given number of distinct communicating peers or flows.