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A Proposal of Large-Scale Traffic Monitoring System Using Flow Concentrators

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Management of Convergence Networks and Services (APNOMS 2006)

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In a large-scale backbone networks, the traffic monitoring system needs to receive a large volume of flow records, so if a single central collecting process is used, it might not be able to process all flow records. In this paper, we propose a method that achieves better scalability by using flow concentrators, which aggregate and distribute flow records. A flow concentrator is located between one or more routers and traffic collectors. The connection methods enable the number of flow concentrators to be adjusted to suit the size of a given network. We propose a reference model for a flow concentrator that is valuable for large-scale networks. We also evaluate the effectiveness of a flow concentrator developed based on these models and the effectiveness of the methods.

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  1. NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, 3-9-11 Midori-cho, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-8585, Japan

    Atsushi Kobayashi, Yutaka Hirokawa, Hitoaki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ishibashi & Kimihiro Yamamoto

  2. Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Laboratory, 1-280 Higashi-Koigakubo, Kokubunji, Tokyo, 185-8601, Japan

    Daisuke Matsubara

  3. NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, 3-9-11 Midori-cho, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-8585, Japan

    Shingo Kimura & Motoyuki Saitou

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  1. Atsushi Kobayashi
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  1. Dept. of Information & Communication Engineering, Graduate School, Yeungnam University, 214-1, Dae-Dong, Gyeongsan-Si, 712-749, Gyeongbook, Korea

    Young-Tak Kim

  2. NTT West Corporation, 6-2-82 Shimaya, 554-0024, Konohana-ku Osaka, Japan

    Makoto Takano

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Kobayashi, A. et al. (2006). A Proposal of Large-Scale Traffic Monitoring System Using Flow Concentrators. In: Kim, YT., Takano, M. (eds) Management of Convergence Networks and Services. APNOMS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11876601_6

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