Consistency Analysis of Network Traffic Repositories

Lastdrager, Elmer and Pras, Aiko (2009) Consistency Analysis of Network Traffic Repositories. In: 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop, EUNICE 2009, September 7-9, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

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Abstract:	Traffic repositories with TCP/IP header information are very important for network analysis. Researchers often assume that such repositories reliably represent all traffic that has been flowing over the network; little thoughts are made regarding the consistency of these repositories. Still, for various reasons, the traffic capturing process may have missed packets. For certain kinds of analysis, for example loss measurements, such inconsistencies may lead to the wrong conclusions. This paper proposes an algorithm to detect such inconsistencies, using the idea of “fake gaps”. A prototype has been developed, and used to test two well-known repositories: the WIDE and Simpleweb repositories. The paper shows that both repositories contain several inconsistencies.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2009 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/69816
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03700-9_23
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