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Researchers Find Efficient Method Of Monitoring Network

Web Desk(August 25, 2017): Researchers at MIT, Cisco Systems and Barefoot Networks have developed a new way to monitor network traffic that gives more flexibility and efficiency.

“There’s this big movement toward making routers programmable and making the hardware itself programmable,” Mohammad Alizadeh, the TIBCO said.

“So we were really motivated to think about what this would mean for network-performance monitoring and measurement.

Researchers have developed a way to approach network monitoring that provides flexibility in data collection while still keeping both the circuit complexity of the router and the number of external analytic servers low.

The system, called Marple, consists of a programming language that allows network operators to specify a range of network-monitoring tasks and a small set of simple circuit elements that can execute any task specified in the language.

Marple is designed to individually monitor the transmissions of each computer sending data via a router.

This translates to more than 1 million connections, where a typical router can only store statistics of 64,000 connections.

The system is able to monitor so many more transmissions through a variation on the common computer science technique of caching, where it kicks out old data for new once the data limit is reached.

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