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Re: representativeness of flow data based on samples

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Allman)
Thu Jan 31 09:39:45 2002

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To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
From: Mark Allman <mallman@grc.nasa.gov>
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:39:02 -0500
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> Does anybody here know of recent research with real internet
> traffic which compares different sample rates wrt the
> representativeness of the resulting flow data?

You might take a look at:

    Nick Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel Thorup.  Charging from
    Sampled Network Usage.  ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement
    Workshop, November 2001.
    http://www.icir.org/vern/imw-2001/imw2001-papers/03.pdf

It may be along the lines your thinking about.

allman


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