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Network traffic measurement provides scientific basis for designing, building, and managing the next generation Internet, and is especially important for monitoring network behavior. There are many challenges in high-speed network traffic measurement. One of the most important bottlenecks is traffic capturing. Because of hardware capability and operating system overhead limitations, the existing network traffic measurement tools based on software can only perform well at low speed network with the link rate below 100 Mbps. This paper mainly focuses on the key issue to perform traffic capture for high-speed network based on software. To achieve this point, Distributed network traffic measurement system is discussed, and a traffic capture prober was designed under general PC server with Linux operating system. We also analyze crucial problems on prober’s implementation, building an experiment environment and running tests on it. The results show that our system satisfies all requirements imposed by real time measuring network traffic behavior. Furthermore, the performance of traffic capture has been improved significantly and can capture/process nearly all packets at line speed under Gigabit network.
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This research is funded by General Project of Hunan Education Department with grant no. 17C1651(Research on accurate identification, anomaly location and behavior analysis of P2P application traffic), and Youth Fund Project of CSUFT with grant no. QJ2012008B. Thanks to our team in ICT for their efforts to develop the monitoring and measurement system, especially thanks to Guangxing Zhang etc.
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Mei, Z., Bin, Z. (2019). Design and Implementation of Network Traffic Capture Prober Based on General PC. In: Xhafa, F., Patnaik, S., Tavana, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications. IISA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 885. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02804-6_21
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