Patent ID: 11874901
Assignee: HILLSTONE NETWORKS CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising a program stored, wherein when running, the program controls a device where the storage medium is located to execute following actions:
acquiring a network flow, and taking the acquired network flow as a discrete object;
clustering the discrete object to obtain a clustering result;
outputting the clustering result; and
formulating a network control policy according to the clustering result;
wherein clustering the discrete object to obtain the clustering result comprises using a Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) method to cluster the discrete object to obtain the clustering result;
wherein using the HAC method to cluster the discrete object to obtain the clustering result comprises according to a source IP address and a destination IP address of the network flow as the discrete object, using the HAC method to cluster the discrete object to obtain the clustering result; and
wherein when the network flow is a network flow transmitted in a cloud network using a Virtual Machine (VM), an agglomeration distance used in the HAC method is determined according to a first distance and a second distance, and weights of the first distance and the second distance, wherein the first distance is a distance between source VMs of two network flows for clustering, and the second distance is a distance between destination VMs of two network flows for clustering.