ABW--Short-Timescale Passive Bandwidth Monitoring

Ubik, Sven; Antoniades, D.; Oslebo, A.

doi:10.1109/icn.2007.15

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“…2) abw: ABW [10] application monitors how bandwidth usage on a network link is divided into various protocols in different layers corresponding to OSI model (e.g., transport layer or application layer, and also IPv6 and multicast traffic). It indicates bandwidth usage in different timescales including short-term samples (1 second averages) in order to detect short peaks.…”

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confidence: 99%

LOBSTER: A European Platform for Passive Network Traffic Monitoring

Antoniades¹,

Polychronakis²,

Papadogiannakis³

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks A

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Abstract-Over the past few years we have been witnessing a large number of new programs and applications which generate prolific amounts of questionable, if not illegal, traffic that dominates our networks. Hoping from one port to another and using sophisticated encoding mechanisms, such applications have managed to evade traditional monitoring tools and confuse system administrators.In this paper we present a concerted European Effort to improve our understanding of the Internet through the LOBSTER passive network traffic monitoring infrastructure. By capitalizing on a novel Distributed Monitoring Application Programming Interface which enables the creation of sophisticated applications on top of commodity hardware, LOBSTER empowers a large number of researchers and system administrators into reaching a better understanding of the kind of traffic that flows through their networks.We have been running LOBSTER for more than a year now and we have deployed close to forty sensors in twelve countries in three continents. Using LOBSTER sensors• we have captured more than 600,000 sophisticated cyberattacks which attempted to masquerade themselves using advanced polymorphic approaches • we have monitored the traffic of entire NRENs making it possible to identify the magnitude (as well as the sources) of file-sharing (peer to peer) traffic.

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confidence: 99%

LOBSTER: A European Platform for Passive Network Traffic Monitoring

Antoniades¹,

Polychronakis²,

Papadogiannakis³

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks A

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“…For instance, PathLoad [6] transmits many packets in a short period over a network to measure available bandwidth, causing congestion. There are also some methods of measuring available bandwidth that require cooperation between the routers and end-hosts in a network [11], [12]. These methods can measure the available bandwidth of the network using only a small number of packets, but they need to modification of all the routers in the network.…”

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A new available bandwidth measurement method based on ImTCP

Oda

Hisamatsu

Noborio

2012

2012 Second International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and It's Applications (DICTAP)

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We propose a method to measure available network bandwidth using the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). The recently proposed ImTCP technique uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data packets and the corresponding acknowledgement responses to measure the available bandwidth between sender and receiver. Since ImTCP needs to change the sender's TCP implementation, it needs modifications to sender's operating system kernel. Moreover, ImTCP cannot measure available bandwidth accurately if the receiver sends delayed acknowledgments. These problems stem from the use of TCP. In this paper, we discuss an ICMP-based method that overcomes these limitations. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method in an experimental network and show that it generates less measurement traffic and requires less time for bandwidth measurement than PathLoad. We also show that proposed method can measure the available bandwidth even if the bandwidth changes during measurement.Index Terms-available bandwidth, bandwidth measurement, Inline measurement TCP (ImTCP)

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“…For instance, PathLoad [18] transmits many packets in a short period over a network to measure available bandwidth, causing congestion. There are also some methods of measuring available bandwidth that require cooperation between the routers and end-hosts in a network [23,24]. These methods can measure the available bandwidth of the network using only a small number of packets, but they need to modification of all the routers in the network.…”

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confidence: 99%