representativeness of flow data based on samples

Thu Jan 31 04:47:20 UTC 2002

> Does anybody here know of recent research with real internet traffic
> which compares different sample rates wrt the representativeness of
> the resulting flow data?

You might find this related talk useful:

http://www.research.att.com/~duffield/pubs/usage-imw2001.pdf

There has been more detailed work done, but I'm not sure if it has been
published or released yet.

-fred