Presentation 2015-12-18
An improved inference method for mean flow rate in OD traffic matrix
Yuki Wakamatsu, Masato Tsuru,
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Abstract(in English) In network management, a global perspective of volume statistics of macro-level flows of network traffic, e.g., traffic among specific networks, is imperative. A macro-level flow is generally defined as a flow that traverses a specific sequence of network routers and denoted by "flow" here. We consider the inference problem of flow-rate statistics of a given set of flows known as Origin-Destination Traffic Matrix (ODTM) estimation. Since it is too costly to directly measure ODTM by referring source and destination IP addresses of each packet traversing multiple observation points, statistical inference of ODTM has been studied, which can infer statistics of each flow-rate based on observation of the aggregated (the sum of) volume of those flows measured at incoming and/or outgoing interfaces on some routers. In flow-rate mean inference, our scheme uses a superposed integration of multiple estimations of the flow-rate mean calculated from the discrete flow-rate distribution with different numbers of value-range division on each partial basic topology. However, the error of the discrete distribution estimation on each basic topology is affected by the division number, and thus a combination of the division numbers for superposing strongly impacts on the final inference performance. In this report, therefore, we investigate and discuss how to determine a good combination of different value-range division numbers.
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Keyword(in English) Network traffic measurement / Statistical estimation / Origin-Destination Traffic Matrix / Network tomography
Paper # IN2015-87
Date of Issue 2015-12-10 (IN)

Conference Information
Committee IN / IA
Conference Date 2015/12/17(2days)
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Place (in English) Hiroshima City University
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Topics (in English) Performance Analysis and Simulation, Robustness, Traffic and Throughput Measurement, Quality of Service (QoS) Control, Congestion Control, Overlay Network/P2P, IPv6, Multicast, Routing, DDoS, etc.
Chair Hidetsugu Kobayashi(NTT) / Ken-ichi Yoshida(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Vice Chair Katsunori Yamaoka(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroyuki Osaki(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Masahiro Jibiki(NICT) / Yutaka Nakamura(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Katsunori Yamaoka(NTT) / Hiroyuki Osaki(KDDI) / Masahiro Jibiki(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yutaka Nakamura(Osaka Univ.)
Assistant Yuichi Sudo(NTT) / Kunitake Kaneko(Keio Univ.) / Yuichiro Hei(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Hiroshi Yamamoto(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Toshiki Watanabe(NEC)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Internet Architecture
Language JPN
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Title (in English) An improved inference method for mean flow rate in OD traffic matrix
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Network traffic measurement
Keyword(2) Statistical estimation
Keyword(3) Origin-Destination Traffic Matrix
Keyword(4) Network tomography
1st Author's Name Yuki Wakamatsu
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
2nd Author's Name Masato Tsuru
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu Institute of Technology(Kyutech)
Date 2015-12-18
Paper # IN2015-87
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) IN-370
Page pp.pp.95-100(IN),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-12-10 (IN)