Lightweight traffic monitoring and analysis using video compression techniques

Authors:
Marat Zhanikeev;Yoshiaki Tanaka
Affiliations:
School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Global Information and Telecommunication Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
APNOMS'09 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific network operations and management conference on Management enabling the future internet for changing business and new computing services
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Traffic analysis based only on IP address is a new research area where traffic anomalies can be detected by studying clusters of IP addresses extracted from traveling packets. Such analysis is normally spatial and needs IP addresses to be put in a multi-dimensional map. This paper proposes a novel method that converts such maps to 2-dimensional graphical form and applies video compression techniques to create MPEG-2 VBR movies where frames are individual snapshots of IP space in time. The paper proves that this combination is suitable for traffic monitoring and detection of DDOS attacks as well as large-scale traffic anomalies caused by social phenomena.