Self-Adaptive Probabilistic Sampling for Elephant Flows Detection

Regression Based Dynamic Elephant Flow Detection in Airborne Network

“…In the military field, AN can be used to link the air and ground combat platforms, which can realize a fast information sharing among all the combat platforms and establish an efficient cooperation between different combat platforms across different regions [3] [4]. Due to the heavy-tailed distribution of network traffic [5][6][7][8], a small number of elephant flows, such as video streaming in the civil field and surveillance and sensing message in the military field, contribute a significant amount of the traffic volume, which will occupy a large amount of the limited available bandwidth. If those elephant flows fail to be detected and all flows are treated equally without any difference, some elephant flows may converge on the same link, resulting in link congestion and message loss, while some links may be idle or with little flows, resulting in a waste of available bandwidth.…”