NFVMon: Enabling Multioperator Flow Monitoring in 5G Mobile Edge Computing

Table 1

Comparison of the different monitoring approaches taken in the literature analyzed.

Group ID	Agent Output	Packet Classification	Architecture	Monitoring Collection Protocol
First Group	Packet Metrics	In-Agent	Distributed	Traditional; Protocol
Second Group	Packet Metrics	In-Agent	Distributed	SDN; Protocol
Third Group	Packet Raw Data	In-Controller	Distributed	Traditional; Protocol
Forth Group	Packet Raw Data	In-Controller	Distributed	SDN; Protocol