It has been over 16 years since Cisco's NetFlow was patented in 1996. Extensive research
has been conducted since then and many applications have been developed. In this survey …

Abstract Analysis of network traffic is becoming increasingly important, not just for
determining network characteristics and anticipating requirements, but also for security …

Internet traffic flow profiling has become a useful technique in the passive measurement and
analysis field. The prerequisites for flow-based measurements are now available within the …

Since network attacks become more sophisticated, it is difficult to discover them using
traditional analysis tools. For some kinds of attacks, it is necessary to analyze Application …

Administrators of today's networks are highly interested in monitoring traffic for purposes of
collecting statistics, detecting intrusions, and providing forensic evidence. Unfortunately …

Network traffic analytics have increased in relevance as researchers promoted machine
learning techniques to tackle several traffic management challenges. Over the past decade …

Analysis and prediction of network traffic has applications in wide comprehensive set of
areas and has newly attracted significant number of studies. Different kinds of experiments …

Many Cisco routers and switches support NetFlow services which provides a detailed
source of data about network traffic. The Office of Information Technology Enterprise …

Network operators need to determine the composition of the traffic mix on links when looking
for dominant applications, users, or estimating traffic matrices. Cisco's NetFlow has evolved …

Operating a network without accurate traffic statistics is not desirable. Commonly used data
sources are SNMP [1], flow-level data like Cisco's NETFLOW [2], and packet level data. The …