Understanding and analyzing network traffic

Measuring, understanding, and analyzing traffic in large networks is a challenging yet vital task for network management and diagnosis. This special issue is intended to present recent research developments and efforts in addressing major challenges in network traffic measurement and analysis. In response to the open call, as mentioned, we were pleased to receive 39 submissions from which nine articles were selected based on review reports for publication in this Special Issue. Five articles were published in the May/June 2011 issue. We publish the remaining four articles in this issue. These articles provide diverse research interests in network traffic monitoring, including network traffic measurement, network attack detection, and gaming traffic analysis.