2013/11/11 by Giuseppe Bianchi, Marco Bonola, Bianchi, Giuseppe +7 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Software System Performance and Reliability #cs.CR #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1311.2442
arxiv created 2013/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2013/11/11 · arxiv updated 2013/11/12 · openalex created_date 2022/10/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The fast evolving nature of modern cyber threats and network monitoring needs calls for new, "software-defined", approaches to simplify and quicken programming and deployment of online (stream-based) traffic analysis functions. StreaMon is a carefully designed data-plane abstraction devised to scalably decouple the "programming logic" of a traffic analysis application (tracked states, features, anomaly conditions, etc.) from elementary primitives (counting and metering, matching, events generation, etc), efficiently pre-implemented in the probes, and used as common instruction set for supporting the desired logic. Multi-stage multi-step real-time tracking and detection algorithms are supported via the ability to deploy custom states, relevant state transitions, and associated monitoring actions and triggering conditions. Such a separation entails platform-independent, portable, online traffic analysis tasks written in a high level language, without requiring developers to access the monitoring device internals and program their custom monitoring logic via low level compiled languages (e.g., C, assembly, VHDL). We validate our design by developing a prototype and a set of simple (but functionally demanding) use-case applications and by testing them over real traffic traces.