Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Next-Generation Traffic Measurement With Network-Wide Perspective and Artificial Intelligence

Traffic measurement is the bedrock of the next-generation network systems. While it plays a crucial role in bringing fundamental data and support to core network functions, it also confronts the challenge of meeting the diverse demands of new network traffic characteristics and emerging applications. The network-wide measurement has received more and more attention. Given that big network data is distributed in nature, it is essential to aggregate the views of multiple measurement points to build a network-wide perception of traffic. Another latest trend involves artificial intelligence technologies that allow seamless aggregation of multifaceted network traffic data to advance traffic data analysis and support related applications. Nonetheless, a gap remains in existing methodologies, which often fail to fully address the diverse demands of network traffic measurement in this evolving landscape.