Title
ASTUTE: detecting a different class of traffic anomalies
Abstract
When many flows are multiplexed on a non-saturated link, their volume changes over short timescales tend to cancel each other out, making the average change across flows close to zero. This equilibrium property holds if the flows are nearly independent, and it is violated by traffic changes caused by several, potentially small, correlated flows. Many traffic anomalies (both malicious and benign) fit this description. Based on this observation, we exploit equilibrium to design a computationally simple detection method for correlated anomalous flows. We compare our new method to two well known techniques on three network links. We manually classify the anomalies detected by the three methods, and discover that our method uncovers a different class of anomalies than previous techniques do.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1851182.1851215
SIGCOMM
Keywords
Field
DocType
anomaly detection,statistical test
Anomaly detection,Data mining,Computer security,Computer science,Exploit,Multiplexing,Statistical hypothesis testing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
4
0146-4833
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
40
1.88
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fernando Silveira1412.23
Christophe Diot27831590.69
Nina Taft32109154.92
ramesh govindan4154302144.86