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Kostas Kyriakopoulos
Kostas
Kyriakopoulos
David Parish
David
Parish
A system for online compression of high-speed network measurements
Loughborough University
2008
Wavelets
Compression
Computer networks
Measurements
Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Distributed Computing
2008-10-24 11:00:52
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/A_system_for_online_compression_of_high-speed_network_measurements/9569138
Measuring various metrics of high speed and high capacity networks pro-
duces a vast amount of information over a long period of time, making the conventional
storage of the data practically ine cient. Such metrics are derived from packet level
information and can be represented as time series signals. Thus, they can be ana-
lyzed using signal analysis techniques. This paper looks at the Wavelet transform as a
method of analyzing and compressing measurement signals (such as delay, utilization,
data rate etc.) produced from high-speed networks. A live system can calculate these
measurements and then perform wavelet techniques to keep the signi cant information
and discard the small variations. An investigation into the choice of an appropriate
wavelet is presented along with results both from o -line and on-line experiments.
The quality of the decompressed signal is measured by the PSNR and a comparison of
compression performance is presented against the lossless tool bzip2.