Measurement data reduction through variation rate metering

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Bianchi;Elisa Boschi;Simone Teofili;Brian Trammell

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy;Hitachi Europe and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland;Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy;Hitachi Europe and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present an efficient network measurement primitive that measures the rate of variations, or unique values for a given characteristic of a traffic flow. The primitive is widely applicable to a variety of data reduction and pre-analysis tasks at the measurement interface, and we show it to be particularly useful for building data-reducing preanalysis stages for scan detection within a multistage network analysis architecture. The presented approach is based upon data structures derived from Bloom filters, and as such yields high performance with probabilistic accuracy and controllable worst-case time and memory complexity. This predictability makes it suitable for hardware implementation in dedicated network measurement devices. One key innovation of the present work is that it is self-tuning, adapting to the characteristics of the measured traffic.