Bottleneck analysis for data acquisition in high-speed network traffic monitoring

Abstract

The increasing network throughput challenges the current network traffic monitor systems to have compatible high-performance data processing. The design of packet processing systems is guided by the requirements of high packet processing throughput. In this paper, we depict an in-depth research on the related techniques and an implementation of a high-performance data acquisition mechanism. Through the bottleneck analysis with the aid of queuing network model, several performance optimising methods, such as service rate increasing, queue removing and model simplification, are integrated. The experiment results indicate that this approach is capable of reducing the CPU utilization ratio while improving the efficiency of data acquisition in high-speed networks.