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An Information-Theoretic Approach to Network Monitoring and Measurement

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Overview Network engineers and operators are faced with a number of challenges that arise in the context of network monitoring and measurement. These include: how much information is included in measurement traces and by how much can one compress those traces?, how much information is captured by different monitoring paradigms and tools ranging from full packet header captures to flow-level captures (such as with NetFlow) to packet and byte counts (such as with SNMP)?, and how much joint information is included in traces collected at different points and can one take advantage of this joint information? In this paper a network model and an information theoretic framework is developed to address these questions.

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Publisher	USENIX Association	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Network Administration

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