Operational statistics encoding and mapping in network nodes

A system comprising:

• one or more computing devices;
• one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computing devices, cause performance of:
• scaling a pre-scaled accumulated byte count of a port of a network node over a sampling period with a scaling factor to generate a scaled accumulated byte count, wherein the pre-scaled accumulated byte count represents a total number of bytes in packets transferred by the port of a network node, wherein the scaling factor represents a first port-specific attribute of the port and scales a port-specific maximum throughput of the port to equal a specific maximum port throughput of the network node;
• applying an iterative vector encoding method to the scaled accumulated byte count to generate an encoded bit vector comprising a plurality of bits respectively in a plurality of ordered bit positions, wherein each set bit of the encoded bit vector represents a respective weighted value of port utilization of the port;
• storing, at a map location at least in part determined by a map offset associated with the port, the encoded bit vector in an operational statistics map.