TY - GEN
T1 - HOSPITAL
T2 - 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC 2010
AU - Sharafuddin, Esam
AU - Jiang, Nan
AU - Jin, Yu
AU - Zhang, Zhi-Li
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The ever-increasing complexity and diversity of the Internet pose several challenges to network operators and administrators and, in general, Internet users. More specifically, because of the diversity in applications and usage patterns; the prevalence of dynamic IP addresses and applications that do not conform to standard configuration (e.g. VoIP to bypass firewalls), monitoring and securing networks and end hosts is no longer a trivial task. In this paper, we propose Host and netwOrk System Profiler and Internet Traffic AnaLysis (HOSPITAL): a tool for the summarization, characterization of traffic and the troubleshooting of potential suspicious activities. HOSPITAL provides the network operator as well as the user with knowledge about applications, communicating parties, services required/provided, etc, at different levels of granularity (e.g. individual hosts, /24 blocks, a large enterprise, etc), all presented concisely with an easy to use web interface. Moreover, HOSPITAL is a light-weight self-contained tool that incurs little overhead with configuration and customization capabilities for users and developers.
AB - The ever-increasing complexity and diversity of the Internet pose several challenges to network operators and administrators and, in general, Internet users. More specifically, because of the diversity in applications and usage patterns; the prevalence of dynamic IP addresses and applications that do not conform to standard configuration (e.g. VoIP to bypass firewalls), monitoring and securing networks and end hosts is no longer a trivial task. In this paper, we propose Host and netwOrk System Profiler and Internet Traffic AnaLysis (HOSPITAL): a tool for the summarization, characterization of traffic and the troubleshooting of potential suspicious activities. HOSPITAL provides the network operator as well as the user with knowledge about applications, communicating parties, services required/provided, etc, at different levels of granularity (e.g. individual hosts, /24 blocks, a large enterprise, etc), all presented concisely with an easy to use web interface. Moreover, HOSPITAL is a light-weight self-contained tool that incurs little overhead with configuration and customization capabilities for users and developers.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700354
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700354
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951865513
SN - 9781424488650
T3 - 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC'10
SP - 420
EP - 424
BT - 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC'10
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 5 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -