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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Iliofotou, Marios
• Pappu, Prashanth
• Faloutsos, Michalis
• Mitzenmacher, Michael
• Singh, Sumeet
• Varghese, George

Titel

Network monitoring using traffic dispersion graphs (tdgs)

Ist Teil von

• Internet Measurement Conference: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement; 24-26 Oct. 2007, 2007, p.315-320

Ort / Verlag

ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Monitoring network traffic and detecting unwanted applications has become a challenging problem, since many applications obfuscate their traffic using unregistered port numbers or payload encryption. Apart from some notable exceptions, most traffic monitoring tools use two types of approaches: (a) keeping traffic statistics such as packet sizes and interarrivals, flow counts, byte volumes, etc., or (b) analyzing packet content. In this paper, we propose the use of Traffic Dispersion Graphs (TDGs) as a way to monitor, analyze, and visualize network traffic. TDGs model the social behavior of hosts ("who talks to whom"), where the edges can be defined to represent different interactions (e.g. the exchange of a certain number or type of packets). With the introduction of TDGs, we are able to harness a wealth of tools and graph modeling techniques from a diverse set of disciplines.