The time-varying dependency patterns of NetFlow statistics
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Author(s)
Gibberd, AJ
Evangelou, M
Nelson, JDB
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We investigate where and how key dependency structure between measures of network activity change throughout the course of daily activity. Our approach to data-mining is probabilistic in nature, we formulate the identification of dependency patterns as a regularised statistical estimation problem. The resulting model can be interpreted as a set of time-varying graphs and provides a useful visual interpretation of network activity. We believe this is the first application of dynamic graphical modelling to network traffic of this kind. Investigations are performed on 9 days of real-world network traffic across a subset of IP's. We demonstrate that dependency between features may change across time and discuss how these change at an intra and inter-day level. Such variation in feature dependency may have important consequences for the design and implementation of probabilistic intrusion detection systems.
Date Issued
2017-02-02
Date Acceptance
2016-09-13
Citation
2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2017
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
Copyright Statement
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Source
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop Proceedings
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-12-12
Finish Date
2016-12-15
Coverage Spatial
Barcelona, Spain