This disclosure is directed to techniques for inferring traffic information or estimating total volume of traffic/data flowing through a target network/entity, wherein only a partial subset of inferred traffic information or volume of data is available to a predictor entity/network that infers such traffic information. In an embodiment, such partial subset of total traffic can either be made available to the entity/network for inferring and estimating total traffic or such partial data can actually flow through the entity/network.