Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for sampling network traffic
- Patent Title (中): 系统和方法对网络流量进行采样
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Application No.: US12342957Application Date: 2008-12-23
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Publication No.: US07957315B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Nicholas Duffield , Lee M. Breslau , Cheng Ee , Alexandre Gerber , Carsten Lund , Subhabrata Sen
- Applicant: Nicholas Duffield , Lee M. Breslau , Cheng Ee , Alexandre Gerber , Carsten Lund , Subhabrata Sen
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for sampling network traffic. The method includes receiving a plurality of flow records, calculating a hash for each flow record based on one or more invariant part of a respective flow, generating a quasi-random number from the calculated hash for each respective flow record, and sampling flow records having a quasi-random number below a probability P. Invariant parts of flow records include destination IP address, source IP address, TCP/UDP port numbers, TCP flags, and network protocol. A plurality of routers can uniformly calculate hashes for flow records. Each router in a plurality of routers can generate a same quasi-random number for each respective flow record and uses different values for probability P. The probability P can depend on a flow size. The method can divide the quasi-random number by a maximum possible hash value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100161791A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAMPLING NETWORK TRAFFIC Public/Granted day:2010-06-24
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