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.