BreadZip: a Combination of Network Traffic Data and Bitmap Index Encoding Algorithm

Nowadays, rapid evolution of computers and mobile devices has caused the explosive increase in network traffic. So it becomes more and more necessary to archive network traffic for analyzing network events and a lot of emerging applications. Compression is fundamental for traffic archival solution to save the storage space, and indexing is effective to accelerate search queries for archive of traffic data. In this paper, we propose BreadZip (blocks row-reordering and adaptive index zip), a combination of initial traffic data and index compression. BreadZip has three main advantages. 1) to improve compressing efficiency and reduce memory footprint, traffic data is reordered in sequence and divided into fixed-size blocks; 2) to accelerate queries, an improved bitmap indexes with smaller volume than traditional will be introduced; 3) to save space, both traffic blocks and bitmap indexes are compressed in different simple run-length encoding methods respectively. Finally, our empirical results on network traffic from CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) show that our solution can significantly reduce the volume of traffic data, while simultaneously preserving the ability to perform selectively queries with response times in seconds.