NDLI: A lossless compression method for Internet packet headers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Holanda, R. Garcia, J.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Comput. Archit. Dept., Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (Holanda, R.; Garcia, J.)
Abstract	A critical requirement for performance evaluation and design of network elements is the availability of realistic traffic traces. There are, however, several reasons that makes it difficult to have access to them. Firstly, Internet providers are usually reluctant to make real traces public, secondly, hardware for collecting traces at high speed is usually expensive, and finally, with the increase of link rates, the required storage for packet traces of meaningful duration becomes too large. In this paper we address the problem of compression of these potentially huge packet traces. We propose a novel packet header compression, focused not on the problem of reducing transmission bandwidth or latency, but on the problem of saving storage space. As far as we know, ours is the first method specifically oriented to this goal. With our proposed method, storage size requirements for .tsh packet headers are reduced to 16% of its original size. The compression proposed here is more efficient than any other existing method and simple to implement. Others known methods have their compression ratio bounded to 50% and 32%.
Starting Page	233
Ending Page	239
File Size	1916035
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078038900X
DOI	10.1109/NGI.2005.1431671
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-04-18
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Availability Telecommunication traffic Bandwidth TCPIP Computer architecture Hardware Internet Timing IP networks Delay
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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