Software defined network traffic measurement: Current trends and challenges

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 42-50

  Yassine, Abdulsalam ^a   Rahimi, Hesam ^a   Shirmohammadi, Shervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Current measurement; Monitoring; Protocols; Quality of service; Real time systems; Software

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIG DATA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MONITORING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; BIG DATA APPLICATIONS; FUTURE CHALLENGES; MEASUREMENT MECHANISM; MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS; TRAFFIC MONITORING;

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS;

EID: 84926632315     PISSN: 10946969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2015.7066685     Document Type: Article

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