Light: A Component Enhances Faster and More Accurate Traffic Measurement^*

The greatest challenge when designing an online sketch method for data flow measurement is to reduce the storage cost of sketches with little loss of accuracy and obtain a higher bandwidth. To address this issue, we proposed Light component. By storing elephant and mice flows separately, the accuracy of the Light-enhanced sketches is substantially improved, and the processing speed is significantly faster due to a significant reduction in the required computational overhead. We implement Light-enhanced sketches alongside several existing sketch methods on CPU and compare their performance. Experiments show that, under the same storage conditions, Light-enhanced sketches can greatly reduce the Average Relative Error by 1.80 to 5.07 times, as well as increase the average processing speed of each packet by 4.96 to 9.05 times compared with their original structure. Our approach also achieves a stable performance in the measurement of traffic in different traffic distributions. More importantly, Light component can be deployed to different sketch methods, which demonstrates its reusability.