Modelling a Network Traffic Probe Over a Multiprocessor Architecture
Luis Zabala, Armando Ferro, Alberto Pineda, Alejandro Muoz · InTech eBooks · 2012
The need to monitor and analyse data traffic grows with increasing network usage by businesses and domestic users. Disciplines such as security, quality of service analysis, network management, billing and even routing require traffic monitoring and analysis systems with high performance. Thus, the increasing bandwidth in data networks and the amount and variety of network traffic have increased the functional requirements for applications that capture, process or store monitored traffic. Besides, the availability of capture hardware (monitoring cards, taps, etc.) and mass storage solutions at a reasonable cost makes the situation better in the field of network traffic monitoring. For these reasons, several research groups are studying how to monitor heterogeneous network environments, such as wired broadband backbone networks, next generation cellular networks, high-speed access networks or WLAN in campus-like environments. In keeping with this line, our research group NQaS (Networking, Quality and Security) aims to contribute in this challenge and presents theoretical and experimental research to study the behaviour of a probe (Ksensor) that can perform traffic capturing and analysis tasks in Gigabit Ethernet networks. Not only do we intend to progress in the design of traffic analysis systems, but we also want to obtain mathematical models to study the performance of these devices.