发明名称 |
FLOW INFORMATION RESTRICTING APPARATUS AND METHOD |
摘要 |
A Flow Record restriction apparatus is provided for restricting a transmission number of Flow Records while maintaining measurement information of the whole traffic. The Flow Record restriction apparatus includes: a flow generation unit 202 configured to determine a set of packets having the same attribute to be a flow of the same communication, and to generate a Flow Record based on header information of the packets for each flow; a Flow Record number restriction function unit 203 including a management buffer for temporarily storing generated Flow Records, and being configured to read the Flow Records from the management buffer and output the Flow Records; and a Flow Record transmission unit 204 configured to packetize the output Flow Records to transmit packets over the measurement network, wherein, when a number of Flow Records stored in the management buffer exceeds a preset upper limit value, the Flow Record number restriction function unit 203 aggregates a part of stored Flow Records. |
申请公布号 |
EP2086183(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2009.08.05 |
申请号 |
EP20070832186 |
申请日期 |
2007.11.20 |
申请人 |
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION |
发明人 |
IRINO, HITOSHI;KATAYAMA, MASARU |
分类号 |
H04L12/22;H04L12/70;H04L12/801;H04L12/911 |
主分类号 |
H04L12/22 |
代理机构 |
|
代理人 |
|
主权项 |
|
地址 |
|