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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2003
Nicholas G. Duffield, New York, NY (US);
Albert Gordon Greenberg, Summit, NJ (US);
John G. Klincewicz, Wayside, NJ (US);
Matthew Roughan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Yin Zhang, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US);
Nicholas G. Duffield, New York, NY (US);
Albert Gordon Greenberg, Summit, NJ (US);
John G. Klincewicz, Wayside, NJ (US);
Matthew Roughan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Yin Zhang, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for the estimation of traffic matrices in a network are disclosed. Mechanisms are disclosed for measuring traffic volume from a plurality of ingress points to a plurality of egress points in a large scanl network, such as an IP backbone network. The traffic matrix is advantageously inferred from widely available link load measurements such as SNMP data.