Scalable network wide flow monitoring has remained a distant dream because of the strain it
puts on network router resources. Recent proposals have advocated the use of coordinated …

NetFlow has been a widely used monitoring tool with a variety of applications. NetFlow
maintains an active working set of flows in a hash table that supports flow insertion, collision …

NetFlow is the de-facto protocol used to collect IP traffic information by categorizing packets
in flows and obtain important flow information, such as IP address, TCP/UDP ports, byte …

In cloud data centers, more and more services are deployed across multiple tiers to increase
flexibility and scalability. However, this makes it difficult for the cloud provider to identify …

OpenFlow is a network device management and monitoring protocol, as well as a switch
specification, that has enabled research, experimentation and deployment of software …

Network measurement and monitoring have been key to understanding the inner workings
of computer networks and debugging the performance problems of distributed applications …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows for efficient network-wide Traffic Engineering
through the logical centralization of the control plane over individual switches that perform …

Multi-tenant data centers are complex environments, running thousands of applications that
compete for the same infrastructure resources and whose behavior is guided by …

Enterprise data centers (EDCs) are critical infrastructure to large enterprises, government
agencies, research institutions, etc. They are used to support a variety of off-the-shelf and …

Modern cloud and data center platforms suffer failures and performance degradation from
large traffic surges caused by both external (eg, DDoS attacks) or internal (eg, workload …