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In this paper we introduce a new framework to detect elephant flows at very high speed rates and under uncertainty. The framework provides exact mathematical formulas to compute the detection likelihood and introduces a new flow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Jordi Ros-Giralt , Alan Commike , Sourav Maji , Malathi Veeraraghavan

We propose in this paper an on-line algorithm based on Bloom filters for identifying large flows in IP traffic (a.k.a. elephants). Because of the large number of small flows, hash tables of these algorithms have to be regularly refreshed.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-22 Youssef Azzana , Yousra Chabchoub , Christine Fricker , Fabrice Guillemin , Philippe Robert

The majority of Internet traffic is caused by a relatively small number of flows (so-called elephant flows). This phenomenon can be exploited to facilitate traffic engineering: resource-costly individual flow forwarding entries can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Piotr Jurkiewicz

Currently, the wide spreading of real-time applications such as VoIP and videos-based applications require more data rates and reduced latency to ensure better quality of service (QoS). A well-designed traffic classification mechanism plays…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Getahun Wassie Geremew , Jianguo Ding

Network traffic classification, particularly elephant flow detection, faces significant challenges when deployed across heterogeneous network environments. While existing approaches demonstrate high accuracy within single domains, they…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Tabidah Usmani , Sara Zahid , Amna Javaid

Measuring network flow sizes is important for tasks like accounting/billing, network forensics and security. Per-flow accounting is considered hard because it requires that many counters be updated at a very high speed; however, the large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-10-07 Yi Lu , Andrea Montanari , Balaji Prabhakar

A new method of estimating some statistical characteristics of TCP flows in the Internet is developed in this paper. For this purpose, a new set of random variables (referred to as observables) is defined. When dealing with sampled traffic,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Yousra Chabchoub , Christine Fricker , Fabrice Guillemin , Philippe Robert

Several Traffic Engineering (TE) techniques based on SDN (Software-defined networking) proposed to resolve flow competitions for network resources. However, there is no comprehensive study on the probability distribution of their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Aymen Hasan Alawadi , Maiass Zaher , Sándor Molnár

The robustness and integrity of IP networks require efficient tools for traffic monitoring and analysis, which scale well with traffic volume and network size. We address the problem of optimal large-scale flow monitoring of computer…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Michael Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev , George Michailidis

Collecting flow records is a common practice of network operators and researchers for monitoring, diagnosing and understanding a network. Traditional tools like NetFlow face great challenges when both the speed and the complexity of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zongyi Zhao , Xingang Shi , Xia Yin , Zhiliang Wang

Current probabilistic flow-size monitoring can only detect heavy hitters (e.g., flows utilizing 10 times their permitted bandwidth), but cannot detect smaller overuse (e.g., flows utilizing 50-100% more than their permitted bandwidth).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Simon Scherrer , Che-Yu Wu , Yu-Hsi Chiang , Benjamin Rothenberger , Daniele E. Asoni , Arish Sateesan , Jo Vliegen , Nele Mentens , Hsu-Chun Hsiao , Adrian Perrig

Electric flow sampling (elfs) is a new tool in the quantum walk toolbox and a useful primitive for solving search, sampling and optimization problems on graphs. We refine this tool by showing that there exists a zero-error transducer for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Simon Apers , Jérémie Roland , Yuxin Zhang

The increasing popularity of jumbo frames means growing variance in the size of packets transmitted in modern networks. Consequently, network monitoring tools must maintain explicit traffic volume statistics rather than settle for packet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Ran Ben Basat , Gil Einziger , Roy Friedman

The efficiency of flow-based networking mechanisms strongly depends on traffic characteristics and should thus be assessed using accurate flow models. For example, in the case of algorithms based on the distinction between elephant and mice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Piotr Jurkiewicz , Grzegorz Rzym , Piotr Boryło

Identifying the largest K flows in network traffic is an important task for applications such as flow scheduling and anomaly detection, which aim to improve network efficiency and security. However, accurately estimating flow frequencies is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Carolina Gallardo-Pavesi , Yaime Fernández , Javier E. Soto , Cecilia Hernández , Miguel Figueroa

Network management and security is currently one of the most vibrant research areas, among which, research on detecting and identifying anomalies has attracted a lot of interest. Researchers are still struggling to find an effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Huy Nguyen , Tam Van Nguyen , Dong Il Kim , Deokjai Choi

Offchain networks emerge as a promising solution to address the scalability challenge of blockchain. Participants directly make payments through a network of payment channels without the overhead of committing onchain transactions. Routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Peng Wang , Hong Xu , Xin Jin , Tao Wang

We consider space-efficient single-pass estimation of the number of butterflies, a fundamental bipartite graph motif, from a massive bipartite graph stream where each edge represents a connection between entities in two different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Seyed-Vahid Sanei-Mehri , Yu Zhang , Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , Srikanta Tirthapura

This paper deals with the problem of identifying elephants in the Internet Traffic. The aim is to analyze a new adaptive algorithm based on a Bloom Filter. This algorithm uses a so-called min-rule which can be described as in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-03-13 Yousra Chabchoub , Christine Fricker , Hanene Mohamed

One of the most popular approaches to multi-target tracking is tracking-by-detection. Current min-cost flow algorithms which solve the data association problem optimally have three main drawbacks: they are computationally expensive, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Philip Lenz , Andreas Geiger , Raquel Urtasun
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