Living on the edge: Monitoring network flows at the edge in cloud data centers

2013 5th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mann, Vijay ^a   Vishnoi, Anilkumar ^a   Bidkar, Sarvesh ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Flow monitoring; NetFlow; sampling; sFlow; vswitch

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION NETWORKS; CLOUD DATA CENTERS; DATA CENTERS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FLOW MONITORING; HIGH RATE; HOST-BASED; HYPERVISOR; MANAGEMENT NETWORKS; MONITORING NETWORK; MONITORING SERVICES; NETFLOWS; NETWORK COVERAGE; NETWORK FLOWS; NETWORK ROUTERS; PACKET HEADER; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SCALABLE NETWORKS; SFLOW; VSWITCH;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONITORING; NETWORK LAYERS; ROUTERS; SAMPLING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84874763858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2013.6465540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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